The grumpy thread

[madrat]

My dog eats nuts all the time too! I'd never heard of nuts being bad for them.

https://www.wagthedoguk.com/2014/08/22/bad-nuts-for-dogs/

[Louise2cv]

So no nuts will actually kill the dog, just that most *may* *possibly* cause stomach upset, with further complications possible. What kind of quantity is dangerous isn't mentioned.

 

I still think this has an air of scaremongering about. People care for their pets.

 

My sister's dog was turned away from the vet recently when they reported it had eaten a box of dark chocolates; the vet check the ingredients and said that's not enough to warrant treatment, the dog may have the squits later though.

 

 

Just to clarify my position, my suspicions about these "dogs and foods" are in no way an endorsement or in any way condoning the suggestion of feeding dogs the foods in question to deliberately risk the animal's health. I just wonder how many dogs happily ate this stuff before email and social media campaigns started flying about.

[bub2006]

Been fine all day then bang. Sparked out,hot head but feeling freezing. Can't stand nor walk without monumental shakes. Pins and needles all over and a horrid aching in my lower back and down my left leg. Looks like a bad day is brewing tomorrow

[xtriple]

The wole thing about dogs and cholcolate was started by the people who originally made 'Good boy' dog chocolate! I forget the name of the company who originally owned it/did it/ marketed it but it was originally for people but tastes like shit and sold... badly. So in a flash of marketig genious, flog it to someone/thing that wouldn't complain!

 

If you read the research (I have 'cos I had a BIG bust up with Phoebes vet over this) then chocolate is as bad for dogs as iti s for us, pro rata that is. Obviously small dog and lots of chocolate is bad... VERY BAD, but the same percentage of the stuff for a small human is just as fatal.

 

By the same token, Oxygen kills you (seriously) water can kill you (if you drink too much) and just about anything else will as well.

 

For the record: I have fed dogs chocolate all my life, most of my mutts have made it to 17 - 18 - 19 years old (that was the last three) and eaten chocolate every day of their lives. Dogs are scavengers (not so much nowadays) and will eat anything so long is it is okay, they do know what is and what isn't good for them - neither of mine would eat a nut if their lives depended on it, nor grapes/raisens no matter how hungry they were... a bit of mouldy meat of chocolat found at the side of the road is another matter!

 

In other grumps....

 

Today I called into a shop to buy the essentials of life (chocolate, fags, milk) and the woman begind the counter regaled me with how I am the spitting image of someone she knows, I could be his FATHER! I was gutted. I am not that old... am I?

[Timewaster]

I am the spitting image of someone she knows, I could be his FATHER! I was gutted. I am not that old... am I?

Technically you only need to be 16 years older than her friend.

 

I can't answer your question. You could be 101 for all I know.

[Cavcraft]

Went on my work's do last night, got absolutely hammered yet wide awake now. What's all that about?

[sierraman]

Isn't kids TV these days crap. Its all shouty Americans, yelling all the time. Were I 5 again about the only one I'd have time for was Peppa Pig.

 

Postman Pat just dicks about all day now he works for DPD or whoever, it ought to be 15 minutes of him stressed as fuck chucking parcels over hedges and driving through housing estates at 50mph.

 

Thomas the Tank is now extremely politically correct in CGI, though they don't seem to call the Fat Controller anymore, he is most probably called the Big but Beautiful Controller or the Slow Metabolism Sufferer Controller.

[mercrocker]

Mrs Rocker just phoned me.....She backed the Merc into a dwarf wall at her son's house.   Fucking stupid driveway, straight off a heavily cambered road,  up a massive incline and you can't see anything out of the back window but sky..........She wanted to leave the car in the road but apparently the neighbours complain...  

 

Wall is crumbling ruin anyway but will get a brickie mate to go and sort out the damage.   Car seems OK but I know from experience one or two back bumper clips will have sheared so that will have to come off and be inspected.     

 

Neither of these things are the grump - its Mrs Rocker.   She has taken it quite badly - first time she has hit anything in a car in 45 years and is noticeably shaken up.   Probably need to do some support stuff when I get home from work!  

 

I have told her next time she visits son to leave car in the road - I have never encountered such a fucking stuck-up curtain-twitching neighbourhood-watching street of inward-looking sofa-botherers in my fucking life.   Her son pays a fortune for caravan storage because it isn't the "done thing" to have it at home round there.  Keep telling him to move but I don't think it's entirely in his hands....

[Pillock]

I need to park a car somewhere.

What's his postcode? Sounds ideal.

[Jim Bell]

45 for 1 is a pretty good innings avoiding bumps into stationary objects. She can be on my cricket team anytime.

[sierraman]

Isn't the done thing! Christ, if you want to keep a caravan on your drive it's your own business. Next door have bought a caravan, its on their drive, I'll pop round and tell them to shift it.

[timolloyd]

Some roads are pretty stuck-up from day one though. Ours has a specific term in the freehold that means you can't have a white van, on the driveway or on the road.

[jollysmart]

Some roads are pretty stuck-up from day one though. Ours has a specific term in the freehold that means you can't have a white van, on the driveway or on the road.

 

So does mine and the road is a series of chicanes around all of the white vans with kids playing between them.

 

 

Just like with the open plan you aren't supposed to have anything higher than 18inches on your frontage and yet there are 4 foot fences right up to the footpath and when you drive along it stops you seeing across the bends which is fun in winter as it slopes quite a lot and you can be on the wrong side of the road unable to stop because you con't see what is coming.

[sierraman]

Buy a silver one then or even better paint the white one pink. By hand after 6 cans.

[Louise2cv]

Or buy a blue one, get it resprayed white, then whenever anyone asks present the log book that clearly states BLUE.

[Tamworthbay]

I can understand the ‘no works vans’ thing, my mates road has a dickhead who works for a forklift company (something like Lindt, makes me think of chocolate) and he always has three vans round there every weekend. They are all legally parked but make it almost impossible to past and god help anyone down the street if there was ever a fire. I wouldn’t want to look out and see a wall of vans parked outside my house every day. But visiting cars? Different matter entirely, that’s part of residential life so they can fuck off if they don’t like it.

[Pillock]

Yeah, my mum's neighbour has got two works vans that seem to end up there all weekend, plus he has a pickup called a WARRIOR or HEADCASE or something and his girlfriend has a car too. One goes on the drive but that's three other large vehicles on a narrow road. They've had to ask my mum if they can block her driveway (she's nearly 70 and batters the buspass rather than driving much) because there's simply no room. Admittedly it was nice they asked if that was OK.

 

(In any case, judging by the stench of weed every time I go into her loft, if it did become a problem then one swift phonecall would make it not a problem at all with a nice empty house next door)

[sierraman]

I had a van for work, I had to bring it home, I'm not sure what people expect you to do in this circumstance.

[Pillock]

Oh shit, nearly forgot my grump.

 

Washing machine has got a bit noisy recently, sounds like a bearing has let go so the drum is catching on the tub or the whole lot is bashing around so much it's smacking the life out of the dampers. It's an impact noise, once per revolution rather than a grinding noise. You can hear it from outside the house when you're walking down the street it's that loud.... but as Mrs_Pillock has just started working for a large orange supermarket that has bought a large catalogue based retailer we were waiting for her discount card to come through.

 

Got a notification last night, I've got a water sensor under the sink and it pinged up to say something was leaking. Yup, the washing machine has shat itself and is merrily emptying itself onto the floor rather than out the waste pipe.

 

Tipped it up and there's water coming from the drain hose out the bottom of the tub that goes to the pump, and it's splashing everywhere so it looks like it's coming out under pressure. Best guess is that the tub bashing around so much has torn a hose or loosened a connection.

 

I could probably fix it, but now there's two faults - water pissing out, and whatever the original fault was that is causing the noise. It's only an Indesit and it was only £230 about 5 years ago so fuck it..... didn't really want to spend the day in Currys but oh well.

[NorthernMonkey]

Our neighbourhood used to be a bit like that, apparently. Meh.

 

 

And yes, I know the grass needs cutting. The lawnmower is in for a service as we speak.

 

 

Now the neighbours are following suit.

 

[mercrocker]

Jeez, I am a grumpy fucker today.....Aforementioned Mrs Rocker has phoned again and seems to have got used to the fact that she is a shit driver.   I even managed to tease her about her licence running out next year anyway..... 

 

So what's up now? 

 

Nothing much - just working on a nice day and hearing about what everybody else is up to (she is now in garden with grandkids having a BBQ, surprised that's allowable round there).    Oh well, a brief moment of pleasure can be afforded  - I got my lunchbox out having bought one of those boxes of little individual cheeses which I thought would be nice with a bag of grapes and an oatcake or two.

 

Except that EVERY little packette of Edam, Emmental and mature Cheddar is AN TWAT to unwrap.  The time ratio between finger-nail peeling fuckery and tastebuds is doing my bastard head in.   Tomorrow I am bringing a fucking Peter's Sausage Roll and a ham bap.    Fucking fiddle-arse food.

[Pillock]

I had a van for work, I had to bring it home, I'm not sure what people expect you to do in this circumstance.

 

Not a lot you can do, but it sounds like you ain't taking the piss.

 

Tamworthbay's neighbour can't be driving all three vans, and my mum's neighbour can't drive two so I suspect they're both telling their workmates "yeah, just come and leave them here - it'll be fine". Probably because workmates live on new builds with a no vans rule!

[Tamworthbay]

Not my neighbour, it’s my mates street. My neighbour is golden and we have enough parking between us to set up a park and ride service.

[angle]

It looks like my grandad had a fall on Friday night. My uncle found him at 10am yesterday, and phoned for an ambulance. '2 hours'. It arrived at 8am this morning. 

[Pillock]

Not my neighbour, it’s my mates street. My neighbour is golden and we have enough parking between us to set up a park and ride service.

Reading posts properly. It's a concept I've heard of......! Oops.

[Tamworthbay]

Reading posts properly. It's a concept I've heard of......! Oops.

easy enough done, having lived in places where parking was a nightmare I wouldn’t have bought something without decent parking. We can fit four on the front, one in the garage, two across the front and there is a parking bay for 6 cars 20yds away. The estate was built in the 70s but they seemed to understand that more cars were coming and planned for it. My mates street where the vans are could not be more different, he can only fit one car on the drive and that overhangs the pavement. Built in the 90s when most households had two cars.

[mercrocker]

It looks like my grandad had a fall on Friday night. My uncle found him at 10am yesterday, and phoned for an ambulance. '2 hours'. It arrived at 8am this morning. 

 

Sorry to hear that, chap.   22 hours for an ambulance, though?

[angle]

Yep. My uncles girlfriend works for the ambulance service, apparently this isn't that unusual at the moment.

[Tamworthbay]

It’s obscene what this government has done to the NHS. Hope he is OK.

[dave21478]

I just dont understand the whole "parking outside my house" mentality. I remember years back I drove round to a mates house in Aberdeen and parked in the street. I was just stopping a few minutes while he came out the house, but I had barely got the hand brake on and switched the engine off when a knuckle-dragger from the house next door ran out and started banging on the window and screaming at me hard enough to cover the window in flecks of spit...."fucking fuck off fucking parking outside MY fucking house you fucking cunt ill fucking kill you fuck off...." etc. For internet hard-man points I would like to say I got out and decked him but he was about six foot seven and built like Thor so I meekly drove off and parked round the corner. World is full of nutters.