The grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

Thats the one, yep!

 

Edit - Damn, beaten to it

[pogweasel]

Hey, I remember seeing that dragon slide in my Blue Peter annual* (1986?), I was well jealous and shit.

 

 

*Yes, very sad. I know.

[warren t claim]

No. We torched it for the insurance.

[Guest]

I got my Piazza swivel chair back from my mate in Bolton!

It's amazing, very well made, and extremely comfortable but (see Grumpy Old Man thread).......

....with the height setting on its lowest I sit an inch and a half too high and can't get my legs under my desk.

 

And there's nothing height wise my mate can do to reduce it, other than machining some very thing discs out to act as feet or lopping an inch off the base of the adjuster ram (or fitting a fixed length bar).

[Tayne]

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[Pete-M]

Raise the desk?

[Guest]

Raise the desk?

I was thinking of raising the desk by sticking on a couple of concrete blocks wrapped in carpet.

 

I've rewired the keyboard and mouse and taken out the sliding section of my desk, so at least my legs fit now. Mixer's had to go on the floor though.

 

I think all this is temporary while I raise the desk or lower the chair. I'm sure if the latter happens I'll break out the shit stickers and matt black paint,

[Station]

Why not sit on that chair next to it? Problem ZOLVED!!1

[Rocket88]

The continued bastardisation [if that's a word.] by bloody Yanks and those of an Atipodean disposition, of our language.

Ergo........"How are you?"..................."I'm good.....". Since when did "good" and "well" mean the same thing. I'll be the judge of you're claim to be "good"

I could go on.............[must move to Tunbridge Wells]

[OwdChina]

Why not sit on that chair next to it? Problem ZOLVED!!1

Or lower the floor area under the desk, like a japanese restaurant

[Justin Case]

Yesterday, there was a Seat Terra van parked by us at Morrison's, and for once I didn't have my camera with me . I hadn't even heard of the thing, I had to look at the back doors to see what it was; a sort of small Fiat Fiorino but different, if you can see what I'm getting at.

[Volksy]

Based on the Seat Marbella (or Fiat Panda), must be very rare over here!

 

[Mr H Sceptre]

The continued bastardisation [if that's a word.] by bloody Yanks and those of an Atipodean disposition, of our language.

Ergo........"How are you?"..................."I'm good.....". Since when did "good" and "well" mean the same thing. I'll be the judge of you're claim to be "good"

I could go on.............[must move to Tunbridge Wells]

I'm glad you've brought up this whole "I'm good" malarky, its something that has really made my shit itch for some. time.

 

Along the same lines, when folk are being served at a counter, instead of saying "please can I have [insert name of product]" you so often hear "Can I get [insert name of product]". Grrrrrrrrrr.

[Rocket88]

If you claim to have English as your mother tongue, please don't take that as catre blanche [see what I did there] to fuck about with it. It's bad enough not spellings things correctly [color, center etc]without inventing meanings for words.............

[Cavcraft]

Football and the internet.

 

If someone (not on here) starts a 'World Cup' thread why the fucking hell do endless queues of misery arses feel the need to chip in with 'football is shit' 'I hate football' 'bollocks to it' etc?

There are certain sports I cannot abide but I don't go jumping in to thread about it saying how much I hate it.

 

Then there's the mongs who believe the shit they read on FaecesBook about 'OMG they're banning people from flying flags' who rant on about 'human rights' and 'civil liberties' and say they'll fly the flag if they like.

And yet some of them then start threads (or reply to them) whining about people flying flags on their cars/homes for the World Cup.

 

No-one has to like football, no-one has to like flags flying, but why don't they just SHUT THE FUCK UP on football related threads?

[The Liberator]

The continued bastardisation [if that's a word.] by bloody Yanks and those of an Atipodean disposition, of our language.

Ergo........"How are you?"..................."I'm good.....". Since when did "good" and "well" mean the same thing. I'll be the judge of you're claim to be "good"

I could go on.............[must move to Tunbridge Wells]

I'm glad you've brought up this whole "I'm good" malarky, its something that has really made my shit itch for some. time.

 

Along the same lines, when folk are being served at a counter, instead of saying "please can I have [insert name of product]" you so often hear "Can I get [insert name of product]". Grrrrrrrrrr.

If I worked in Costa or Starbucks etc., I'd find it hard to resist answering 'Can I get a skinny soya latte (or whatever)?' with something like 'Yes, are you going to ask for one properly?' or 'I don't know, can you?' at least once before I got sacked. Anyone asking 'Please may I have a ... ?' would earn a free croissant for remembering their manners.

 

The thing that really gets me about Americanised English is their deeply irritating use of nouns as verbs, and verbs as nouns.

 

'Have you progressed this?' Piss off.

'There is a disconnect at this time.' Fuck off.

 

I suppose that's about as much as you can expect from a nation that doesn't recognise the difference between license and a licence.

[Captain Mainwaring]

What also annoys me about that is the way American customs and mannerisms are being increasingly portrayed in British TV.

 

For some reason, I found myself watching The Inbetweeners the other day, and there was a scene where all these kids were in this classroom. A bell rung, and all the kids got up and walked out of the classroom, with the teacher warning them about homework, a la Saved by the fucking Bell.

 

Whenever someone stood up after the buzzer went at our school they were told to sit straight back down.

[Rocket88]

As Churchill send about America.." You can trust the Americans to do the right thing.........after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".....

There was some stupid woman on Sky News this morning, berating H.M.Queen for not getting involved in the B.P. fiasco....if I was D.Cameron esq, I wouldn't be grovelling to Obhama, I'd be sending them a humengous bill for the U.S involvement in the Amoco Cadiz etc. I'd also be whipping our lads out of Afghanistan, pronto

[M'coli]

Re: Americanisation of our speech - I hate it when someone says their car has a "license plate", when they mean "number plate", as VRM plate is a bit clumsy. It annoys me too when rozzers put that down on paperwork too.

[Jon]

Let us know what happens! Sadly I suspect it will be a 'negative transaction outcome'

Well Mr. B, it wasn't quite like that. Since we've already replaced it, I'd stored the Saab on my grandparents drive, as it was uninsured. With me being at work, I didn't want Mrs_cav to be dealing with these tards on her own, getting fobbed off with 'we paid on Paypal', not signing the V5 etc. Fortunately, my brother was very local, so could assist. 6pm was agreed as the time to meet.

 

At 7 my wife lost patience after calling the buyer 3 times and getting no reply. While I was driving, she left a message telling me of the no show and that she'd gone home! My brother followed suit, since he was really busy. I get the message at 7.15, call my grandparents, to be greeted by my gran in a right state (she has early signs of dementia), confused and telling me of a couple of people looking round the car. I get to speak to this fella, who had left his phone at home and in his infinite wisdom had assumed that Middlesbrough to York would only take him 30mins!

 

In the end, a frantic call to my sister, the only person I could get in touch with, ensured that someone not 80+ could oversee the transaction, which happily actually took place!

 

In essence, I've had a load of hassle, put my grandparents through shit and gained a whole £310 for our Saab, before Ebay fees. If I hadn't been on a meal break, I don't know what I'd have done.

 

Still, were down to 4 cars now. Further fleet reduction towards the end of the year won't be using Ebay.

[OwdChina]

As Churchill send about America.." You can trust the Americans to do the right thing.........after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".....

There was some stupid woman on Sky News this morning, berating H.M.Queen for not getting involved in the B.P. fiasco....if I was D.Cameron esq, I wouldn't be grovelling to Obhama, I'd be sending them a humengous bill for the U.S involvement in the Amoco Cadiz etc. I'd also be whipping our lads out of Afghanistan, pronto

BP are not owned by the British anymore, see the link.

 

http://www.grumpyoldsod.com/bp%20oil%20spill.asp

[dollywobbler]

The Americans are proper upsetting me at the moment. So down on us Brits because 'our' oil company went over there and made things oily. Well, if they didn't drive around in sodding enormous SUVs, they wouldn't need so much of the stuff!

 

But my main anger is that the Americans stay very, very quiet about the AMERICAN owned oil platform that suffered the accident. It's not like the BP shareholders were down on the seabed digging themselves is it?

 

If an American tries speaking to me at the moment, I'm going to be so 'whatever' right in their face.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm going to be so 'whatever' right in their face.

You're sounding quite American yourself there wobblah! ENOUGH ALREADY!

[wuvvum]

Based on the Seat Marbella (or Fiat Panda), must be very rare over here!

 

I quite regularly see a scruffy white one of those on my way home from work. Diesel too, for added shite points.

[maxpower]

As Churchill send about America.." You can trust the Americans to do the right thing.........after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".....

There was some stupid woman on Sky News this morning, berating H.M.Queen for not getting involved in the B.P. fiasco....if I was D.Cameron esq, I wouldn't be grovelling to Obhama, I'd be sending them a humengous bill for the U.S involvement in the Amoco Cadiz etc. I'd also be whipping our lads out of Afghanistan, pronto

BP are not owned by the British anymore, see the link.

 

http://www.grumpyoldsod.com/bp%20oil%20spill.asp

just watched the yanks tear into the bp c.e.o... maybe they should ask themselves about the so called wmd they said iraq had..as an excuse for an oil war... its called karma..america and its come to bite you on the ass

[Station]

This type of person:

 

 

Driving this very car (on credit from Car Supermarket) with the top down:

 

 

Blasting out music from this radio station:

 

 

 

I saw two today in the space of five minutes. One skipped the queue at the traffic lights because he went through the 'right turn only' lane.

 

[warren t claim]

I think you will find that 107.6 Juice FM in the local no hair, kebab eating track suit trash radio station in our area.

[warren t claim]

Attention surfer scenesters!

 

An ex AA VW Transporter with a cheap blow over is NOT rad, bogus, knarly or even the slightest bit bodacious!

 

Thank you for your attention. You may continue to "hang ten" now dude.

[Milford Cubicle]

Yeah, I fail to see much appeal in T4 Trainspotters over any other van (though the five-pot diesel is nice), it's just that badge innit?

[dollywobbler]

I dunno. I really like the T4. Then handle superbly and when not on 3200,0000 miles, feel really tight and solid. Used to love mine when I was a van driver. Got given a Sprinter one week. Fuggin' awful!!

 

I think the Transporter is responsible for Ford making the current-shape Transit so good.