The grumpy thread

[320touring]

#truckerstizer

[alcyonecorporation]

What, like Alfreton?

LOL, I used to read the news for Erewash Sound.

[xtriple]

By about 10:00 p.m. last night I was feeling terrible, worse, Phoebe was having trouble walking. We ended up sleeping on the floor together (Chester in the mix as well) and we sort of jointly whinged until about 3 when sleep happened.

 

It wasn't until this morning when I was doing our joint meds that I realised I had neglected to give Phoebe her evening pills and I had missed mine as well! No wonder we were so bad. I have a routine that is followed daily so I NEVER forget. But because the KIA was being collected, the routine went out of the window and I forgot.

 

Poor little lass, she was really struggling last night, I feel so guilty

[Talbot]

Best self-defence ever:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90dnUbZMmM

[barefoot]

Pottering over Walton Pastures between Melbourne & EMA this morning and dodging some of the mega pot holes that have opened up after the recent freeze & thaw. Passed a vast hole close to the centre line & a couple of hundred yards further on spotted a Fiat 500 with two off side punctures.

 

Be careful out there kids.

[RayMK]

Potholes are bad in Northants as well. Bad enough to kill low profile tyres and wreck alloys. Nice to know that the 4x4 school run brigade will swerve to avoid potholes regardless of vehicles coming in the other direction.  Potholes hiding under puddles are a bar steward.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

LOL, I used to read the news for Erewash Sound.

 

You are Alan Partridge AICMFP 

[Pillock]

LOL, I used to read the news for Erewash Sound.

Erewash Sound being presumably an empty, dull echo with the occasional highlight of a rat scurrying around.

 

Oh, you mean the radio station.

[fordperv]

All this talk of you guys doing martial arts makes me jealous, mrs fp argues with me every time I mention anything like that, I thought about doing it as an extra to my strength and fitness work at the gym, she says im bad enough without making myself into a deadly weapon, what she doesn't get is the mental control that it teaches etc

[beko1987]

It's not. The key will be jammed in the outlet pipe just before the drain pump.

 

I've yet to find a washing machine that isn't fairly easy to remove the outlet pipe from the drum to the drain pump and empty it out. You will probably find: Several coins, Several buttons, Various bits of plastic, a couple of hairbands, a disgusting mix of soap scum and hair, and your missing key.

 

I once found an entire sock jammed in the outlet pipe of a washing machine I had just been given for free because it "doesn't wash very well". No shit! Still, a £500-when-new 3-year-old washing machine for free because of a sock was a bargain.

Nope, not in the filter... Tempted to wait a bit and see if it turns up. Don't know how to strip a washing machine apart, do know a bloke who does though

[SierraMikeHotel]

Nope, not in the filter... Tempted to wait a bit and see if it turns up. Don't know how to strip a washing machine apart, do know a bloke who does though

 

This has amused me greatly, for some reason.  Is there some snobbery to which cleaning machines you're willing to take apart?  Or perhaps there's a washing machine mafia, and you'd find a horse's head in your bed if you were found out messing with a fluff filter?

 

(Not intended to take the piss out of your hobby at all, this just appealed to my silly sense of humour.)

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

And inspirational quotes can FRO, too. If you need to have ‘Life is a journey, not a destination’ on your wallpaper, you’re probably a right knob rocket.

It’s about as deep and meaningful as a post Christmas dinner poo.

 

 

 

I've seen - with my own eyes - bedroom walls with song lyrics above the headboard. One was Snow Patrol (an even worse Coldplay) and their giant value bargain bucket of fucking misery 'Chasing Cars'. Yeah, because having:

 

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

 

stencilled on your Barratt semi makes you really deep. Fucking pretentious twatjackets.

[iainrcz]

Just been told the labour rate at the dealer my RCZ is at.

 

Fucking obscene.

 

Warranty or not not I'll be paying out a few hundred quid.

 

It cements my dislike of main dealers.

 

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[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Heres something thats boiling my piss 24/7 at the moment. Fucking LITTER. I dont know if I'm getting more sensitive to it or what but every time I go out the house my eyes seem to home themselves in on fucking litter EVERYWHERE. When i take the dog for a walk I am constantly bollocking it for picking up examples from the fucking thousands of pop bottles and cans that are lying around along the side of all the paths and tracks round here. I walked along the side of the road up to Shirland the other day and the bottom of the hedge is SOLID FUCKIN LITTER!!! Milk cartons, beer cans, packaging, hundreds of thousands of bits of rubbish everywhere I fucking look. How has it all got there? I can't believe that so much shite has just been dropped by careless folk walking along there, its just not possible, theres hardly anyone walking along there. Theres a new estate opposite with loads of quite expensive new-build pleasantville houses, some of which look out over fields. If the residents train their eyes to look over the fuckinshitload of litter on their new grassy bank at the edge of the estate that is. Those people who have spent all that money on their new identikit houses arent gonna chuck loads of rubbish outside their front doors are they. So how has it got there? I was driving to work this morning and EVERY SINGLE ONE of the laybys along the side of the A38 has been fly-tipped with sacks of rubbish that have all been ripped open leaving shit everywhere, snagging on all the bushes and trees. ONe has a smashed-up sofa sitting there. I can't bear to look at it all man. I want to take the dog out for a walk but I find it all so depressing looking at all this shit strewn everywhere that its a totally joyless experience. My eyes dont see the trees, plants, grass, wildlife, fields and whatnot, all they see is fucking crap dumped everywhere by cunts. Who wants to live in a world surrounded by all this shit? What fuckin chance have the oceans and rainforests got if we cant even keep the little bits we actually live in 24/7, half presentable? NONE.

 

I could ring the council and moan but unless they have a fuckin army of litter pickers on standby they havent got a bastard chance man, theres just so much of it everywhere. It just makes me want to live in my dream horsebox miles away from humanity and never see another fucking person.

 

I would very happily buy some thick gloves and some rubble sacks from screwfix and tidy it up myslef but its a fuckin lifes work man, I have got to earn a living and feed myself and once ive done that theres bugger all time left. If someone wants to cover my mortgage payments and buy me some food I will get started tomorrow.

 

 

 

To me, littering has always been a shooting offence. Flytipping - you and your stinking shit famileh. On my way to my workshop I take a small narrow country road and as well an old TV somewhere, some other bastard had dumped a Zafira's worth of household refuse in a field entrance.

 

The only exception to that rule is food. Apple cores, unfinished sandwiches - passenger window down and out it goes, into a hedge or ditch. That's a meal to a vole/fox/whatever. 

 

The problem is down to arsehole councils, as per. Fortnightly bin collections (WTAF?) and recycling centres staffed by cunts who would have been right at home at Longbridge in the seventies.

[Cavcraft]

Uh-oh, just remembered I have got a picture with a quote in our house, right next to my computer too

 

[John F]

^ unlike for promoting theft.

 

And because it's a picture of that humungous arsehole Morrissey.

[Honey Badger]

^ unlike for promoting theft.

 

And because it's a picture of that humungous arsehole Morrissey.

 

Are you sure that it's Morrissey?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Sick of house hunting / mortgage bullshit / whatever already.

 

Found a property I want to buy but it’s a new build 

 

 

Make sure that if it's leasehold, the developer can't resell the lease.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 This better quality material is worth more. That's why you may have 4/5/6 different bins or boxes.

 

 

 

 

That's why I chuck everything in the black bin.

[beko1987]

This has amused me greatly, for some reason. Is there some snobbery to which cleaning machines you're willing to take apart? Or perhaps there's a washing machine mafia, and you'd find a horse's head in your bed if you were found out messing with a fluff filter?

 

(Not intended to take the piss out of your hobby at all, this just appealed to my silly sense of humour.)

Hehe not at all, I'd do it, but it sounds like more of a ballache than a Hoover, I presume I've got to disconnect it, drag it right out, have the back off etc. I know a bloke who can talk me through it if needed, I'm just hoping it passes it through like a child whose eaten a quid!

[madrat]

Hehe not at all, I'd do it, but it sounds like more of a ballache than a Hoover, I presume I've got to disconnect it, drag it right out, have the back off etc. I know a bloke who can talk me through it if needed, I'm just hoping it passes it through like a child whose eaten a quid!

More like tip it on its side and remove sump hose.

[beko1987]

Ah that sounds easier. I presume that isn't a job you do with it turned on and running?

[madrat]

Ah that sounds easier. I presume that isn't a job you do with it turned on and running?

Well if you fancy washing the kitchen at the same time then yes.

[Frogchod]

THE WASHING MACHINE IS MAKING ODD NOISES, I FOUND THIS, YOUR A FUCKING TWAT ETC

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Ah so that's where my keycard went the other day... But shit, where's the blade bit... Gulp

Hoping the internal pipework is large enough to flush it through to the filter but part of me thinks it's wedged somewhere and about to cause trouble

Bollocks, thank God for a spare keycard...

My dad washed his car keys. He found the metal bit though. Stuffed through the drum. Cost him a new washing machine and around 400 euros for a new key and fancy electronicy fob thing.

Sorry, no help I know.

[SiC]

My dad washed his car keys. He found the metal bit though. Stuffed through the drum. Cost him a new washing machine and around 400 euros for a new key and fancy electronicy fob thing.

Sorry, no help I know.

Bekos washing machine is probably worth more than his Laguna II.

[cobblers]

Bekos washing machine is probably worth more than his Laguna II.

Which is ironic because the washing machine is made of several Lagunas

[richardmorris]

Family Went to get the funeral certificate today and was told that they were very busy and couldn’t do it before Monday- 10days since he died! Andrew, his son, made a big fuss- apparently dr on the ward is now on holiday for a week.

 

He was phoned back later to be told they’d had a cancellation and they could do it on Friday, still a week after he’d died. Presumably someone they thought was dead isn’t and so doesn’t need a certificate anymore!

 

Without one nothing can be done- can’t inform the council, the bank, motability or even confirm the bloody crematorium.

 

 

So I’d be wary of Wrexham maelor- they’re obviously killing thousands of patients a week in hospital.

[myglaren]

Hehe not at all, I'd do it, but it sounds like more of a ballache than a Hoover, I presume I've got to disconnect it, drag it right out, have the back off etc. I know a bloke who can talk me through it if needed, I'm just hoping it passes it through like a child whose eaten a quid!

Take great care tipping it over - the concrete stabilising weights can do a lot of damage.

 

I went to see a non-pumping & leaking machine in a student flat.

Bra underwire had punctured the hose to the pump but it was jammed with several elastic bands around the pump shaft and 38 £1 coins plus change in the pipework.

[RayMK]

What, no socks!

[myglaren]

^ nope, but my next door neighbour's was jammed with baby socks.  She was happy I found them for her before she called out an engineer and paid through the nose for a five minute job.