The grumpy thread

[Slartibartfast]

Is toosavvy's "Caravanning" sig broken for anyone else or just me?

[Cavcraft]

Nope, it's not working.

[Slartibartfast]

Right, I've fixed it. Bloody Flickr/Yahoo.

[mercrocker]

  On 12/03/2018 at 10:06, Slartibartfast said:

I'm very sorry to hear that. You doing OK?

  

Yeah, I will be fine it was just a bit of a shock and I do appreciate the thought, thank you.

[bub2006]

  On 12/03/2018 at 01:39, Noel Tidybeard said:

ahh well you get arley barley cos of the hearing aids then- isnt there a setting that links hearing aids and fone?

Not that I know if. Mine are the digital malarkey things. You can buy a box that you link to hearing aids and can have phones, mp3,doorbell egg linked to it but I can't warrant selling a kidney to buy one.

[Slartibartfast]

How much are they?

 

I did a bit of reading this morning and apparently bluetooth is being added to a lot of hearing aids now, but I can't imagine how much that must cost.

[Des]

  On 11/03/2018 at 16:57, bub2006 said:

A couple of pages back folk talking about people walking round holding phone on speaker phone. On the rare occasion I have to answer the phone in public i use speaker phone. If I don't and hold it to my ear my hearing aids whistle and screech. I'd rather use speaker then have the horrid noises in my ear. But I do at least look where I'm going.

 

Well if you're looking where you're going you've no need to concern yourself with "THE GREAT RECKONING."

[dave21478]

Whats the story on the guy on the previous page who looks like he has had the piss beaten out of him?

 

Todays grump...French road repairs. Again.

I come round a blind corner in the rain and some dick in a grubby hi-viz is standing right in the middle of the road, behind his truck so ideally placed to be crushed, using the back of his shovel to pat down a gob of cold tar into a pothole.

Aye, nice one brother...feel free to risk your life and the lives of other road users to do a "repair" that wont last till the end of the week.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^what he said without the French road bit.

[tooSavvy]

^^ & raise you ^^ ^

 

... Cold plastic tar-a-like pot hole filler ! ?

 

Drove over some fresh yesterday and it sounded like my sills were being grit-blasted

 

$hite $hit

 

TS

[Tamworthbay]

  On 12/03/2018 at 16:59, dave21478 said:

Whats the story on the guy on the previous page who looks like he has had the piss beaten out of him?

 

 

He got a ‘make up by the stars’ voucher for Christmas, sadly he got Stevie Fucking Wonder.

[Des]

Raise further with doing fucking nothing and leaving the potholes to carry on growing ever larger until we're back to the Victorian cobbles. 

[barefoot]

Dog shit moan.

 

I appreciate that this is often an emotive topic. In the good old days I used to watch my dog take a dump on a forest track, the next day it would be covered in flies, the following day maggots and then towards the end of the week, sort of fluffy and then gone. We can't enjoy stuff like that anymore, we have to bag it up in little perfumed black bags with little white bones printed on them. Then we carry them to the dedicated bins which are lined with the thickest yellow bags I have ever come across in my life. And then every Tuesday morning a bloke turns up, chucks the contents of all 24 bins in the village into his transit & drives them forty miles to Coventry where they go, double bagged into landfill.

Don't get me wrong, I can't be doing with shit on pavements & playing fields, and I really don't have a problem clearing it up, but there must be a better way than this.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 12/03/2018 at 17:13, barefoot said:

Dog shit moan.

.....I can't be doing with shit on pavements & playing fields, and I really don't have a problem clearing it up, but there must be a better way than this.

 

There certainly is....

[madrat]

Fucking charity adds on TV

PARASITES

[Frogchod]

  On 12/03/2018 at 16:59, dave21478 said:

Whats the story on the guy on the previous page who looks like he has had the piss beaten out of him?

 

Todays grump...French road repairs. Again.

I come round a blind corner in the rain and some dick in a grubby hi-viz is standing right in the middle of the road, behind his truck so ideally placed to be crushed, using the back of his shovel to pat down a gob of cold tar into a pothole.

Aye, nice one brother...feel free to risk your life and the lives of other road users to do a "repair" that wont last till the end of the week.

Top tip. Buy a house on the same road as the mayor. Potholes fixed* straight away, drains unblocked yesterday and a reliable 12meg internet service.

 

For those of you living in the 21st centaury 12meg is fucking good especially in rural France.

[Mr A Lawrence]

  On 11/03/2018 at 19:22, The Reverend Bluejeans said:

You live there?

Trefnant.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 12/03/2018 at 17:19, madrat said:

Fucking charity adds on TV

PARASITES

 

"£100,000 will go a long way to covering up our next overseas sex abuse scandal.

 

Just £10,000 will cover our Chief Executive's salary for an entire month.

 

£4000 will cover a Trustee's expenses for four weeks.

 

Alleviate the suffering now. Your support and donations are important (to our next fact-finding junket)....."

[madrat]

  On 12/03/2018 at 18:23, Tadhg Tiogar said:

"£100,000 will go a long way to covering up our next overseas sex abuse scandal.

 

Just £10,000 will cover our Chief Executive's salary for an entire month.

 

£4000 will cover a Trustee's expenses for four weeks.

 

Alleviate the suffering now. Your support and donations are important (to our next fact-finding junket)....."

Having volunteered and worked for charity's I can say that they might have started off with good intentions but it soon turns to shit, there only after prestige and big wages.

[purplebargeken]

Having successfully disposed of one parking ticket of late I received another this evening. Seems that I spent over 19 hours shopping at the local retail park. This included overnight shopping. Really? Oh, this should be entertaining  I go there to buy bread mostly. This does not take 19 hours. 

[Captain Furious]

My grump tonight, Next. I ordered some clothes from their big and tall range, because I’m 6'6, and you’d have to say that none of these items are either a) big or 2) tall. Why do you fucking do this, have you never met anyone that was over 5 friggin 9. I’m not really fat, I mean, it wouldn’t hurt me to skip a meal or a couple of pints every now and again but you wouldn’t characterise me as overweight, yet an XL T-shirt, the size I have worn my entire adult life, now resembles some skin tight skinny hipster cunt size.

 

So everything is now unceremoniously stuffed in the bag to send back. To say nothing of the fact that despite paying extra for the pre-1pm delivery, it arrived at 4:15. But that seems less important since none of it fucking fits anyway.

[Pillock]

Dog poo - round here, they advise you to flick it into the undergrowth with a stick where it will be dealt with by nature. 

Obvs doesn't work on the footpath outside the school or whatever but all the forestry commission tracks and stuff do it that way. There's signs telling you to which are on the posts in the carparks where the dog poo bins used to be.

[bub2006]

  On 12/03/2018 at 14:13, Slartibartfast said:

How much are they?

 

I did a bit of reading this morning and apparently bluetooth is being added to a lot of hearing aids now, but I can't imagine how much that must cost.

I'm not sure,too scared to enquire!

[bub2006]

  On 12/03/2018 at 09:58, nebuchenezer said:

FFS!

 

Father neb:

 

Shit fella,hope the chap is ok

[richardmorris]

Still can’t get a death certificate for my grandfather- doctor on last Friday isn’t in today. Means nothing can be booked or a start made on informing the bank and council ( council house). Crematorium is provisionally booked for the 26th ( first available date) but they won’t confirm until they get the death certificate.

 

Also Caldecotts ( funeral directors) need authority from the hospital to remove his ICD device- or there will be a big boom at the crematorium!

 

And my sister is going to Belize working on Friday for a month so will miss the funeral.

 

Oh and it turns out he had a daughter I’ve never met, despite him being married to my grandmother for nearly forty years! Families are strange!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 12/03/2018 at 18:39, madrat said:

Having volunteered and worked for charities I can say that they might have started off with good intentions but it soon turns to shit, there only after prestige and big wages.

If you're paying people - and substantial sums - to work for a charity, then it's not really a charity anymore, but a business.

[timolloyd]

FFS. Ordered a skip to be put on the drive. Dumped right in front of garage door.

 

'Oh sorry mate, but no one keeps a car in their garage any more do they?'

[SiC]

  On 12/03/2018 at 18:43, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Fucking taxi driver which blocked my exit from a side road to pickup passengers, while ignoring the taxi parking zone not 15ft in front of him, while also double parking alongside a double Decker school bus, which in turn blocked the fire truck from passing.

 

When I blast my horn it was not a cue for the tyraid of racial abuse which I am sure you felt was required, it was to get your face into my dashcam so I can send the lot to your boss.

 

Fucknugget.

Have you got his taxi license number? Can report him to the council. Usually terms in their licence that they need to park, drive, etc considerately and appropriately.

[richardmorris]

And I’ve just had the call from my step-uncle asking to be a pall bearer. I was expecting to do it, but four times in three years is getting to be a little depressing.

[SierraMikeHotel]

  On 11/03/2018 at 16:57, bub2006 said:

A couple of pages back folk talking about people walking round holding phone on speaker phone. On the rare occasion I have to answer the phone in public i use speaker phone. If I don't and hold it to my ear my hearing aids whistle and screech. I'd rather use speaker then have the horrid noises in my ear. But I do at least look where I'm going.

We used to have iPhone 5s at work (an old model that you'd find dirt cheap on eBay now). They've been sitting in a cupboard since we were issued with the new phones.

 

A manager from another department has raided our cupboard for the old iPhones because she has a deaf staff member who relies on a piece of hardware that works with the iPhone but not our shiny new Samsungs.

 

I didn't pay much attention at the time but if it would be useful to you I'll find out what this gadget is.