The grumpy thread

[Bren]

My condolences.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....watched Virgin balloon go up earlier, just behind our van.

They seem to be going up all over the place. There was one being launched from a field on Friday night, just as I rode past on the horse....

[Angrydicky]

 

The loud music annoys me too. Some new tenants moved into the cottage opposite and played music non stop. Which royally fucked me off as my cottage has single glazed windows and I could here the "boom, boom, boom" of the shitty bass non stop. When it was still going at 11:30 one night I went round and asked them to turn it off. It kept going (albeit quieter) for a week and I was very close to complaining to the landlords about it (they live on site) when it suddenly stopped. I think they'd heard it too, and had a word...

 

Why oh why do people play ear-spitting lot loud music while driving slowly or sat in traffic? It's so bloody antisocial.

I did let off the van driver doing such at some traffic lights in Ipswich a couple of weeks ago, but only because he was listening to Dire Straits. Generally, the music listened to by these twats is the most awful, generic, modern dross imaginable, and it's painful to be stuck near them.

[Jim Bell]

Mother in law passed away peacefully earlier this evening.

 

Fuck.

Sorry to hear that man. Condolences at this terrible time.

[Guest Hooli]

The loud music annoys me too. Some new tenants moved into the cottage opposite and played music non stop. Which royally fucked me off as my cottage has single glazed windows and I could here the "boom, boom, boom" of the shitty bass non stop. When it was still going at 11:30 one night I went round and asked them to turn it off. It kept going (albeit quieter) for a week and I was very close to complaining to the landlords about it (they live on site) when it suddenly stopped. I think they'd heard it too, and had a word...

 

Why oh why do people play ear-spitting lot loud music while driving slowly or sat in traffic? It's so bloody antisocial.

I did let off the van driver doing such at some traffic lights in Ipswich a couple of weeks ago, but only because he was listening to Dire Straits. Generally, the music listened to by these twats is the most awful, generic, modern dross imaginable, and it's painful to be stuck near them.

 

 

I used to have neighbours who always had the tv/stereo on full & shouted at each other till abotu 3am. They calmed down after I got up at 4am to catch a ferry & left they kyle twat's talk show on full upstairs & maiden on full downstairs for an hour...

 

 

As to the latter, it's cool innit m9? all those glances as admiration.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

In my old flat, I used to have neighbours that had the habit of putting their washing machine on after 11PM.  Being an old building, all of the electrical control boxes to each flat were just down the corridor from me.

 

So I went and turned their power off.  Then turned it on again after five minutes.  They re-started their machine.  So I turned it off again.  Didn't bother turning it back on.

 

They never ran their machine late after that.

[Guest Hooli]

Which reminds me, I need to post on the hotel thread later.

Utter lying wanker in a frog formula1 place (claimed the cleaners had left so he couldn't refund the following night, odd that as she was emptying his office bin at the time!)

Anyway our room had all the fuse boxes on, but very few fuses as they seemed to leave with me & end up in a bin miles away...

[Christine]

Next doors fence blew over into my garden in Feb , after a few days it was still there,  squashing my plants , so i pushed it back up and propped it up with some 4x2s at 45 degrees into my lawn . still like it ...but i 'm not particularly bothered  . Yesterday , I was chatting to the guy ,and said if he got some posts ,I'd give him a hand to fix it . He thinks its not his fence and is going to look at the deeds .... All my plans of the boundary have the T marked on his side and my T is on the left hand fence .. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Brace yourselves.  Fence discussions are always... interesting.

[purplebargeken]

It's always theirs when it's okay, yours when it's broken. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

AlfaFemale’s Mk3 MR2 has sat on the drive all winter doing nowt so decided today to get it fired up so she could take it out for a blast.

 

Jumped it off my car, no problem.

 

Pumped up tyres, no problem.

 

Freed off pads from discs , no problem.

 

Dropped the roof, pushed it down and put my bloody hand through the glass screen.

 

Going to be a right ball ache to get fixed as it’s bonded to the fabric. Changing the whole frame from a scraper looks like needing half the car dismantling and can’t be arsed with that.

 

Anyone know any car trimmers or soft top specialists in or around Sheffield?

I've used Earl here bumsonseatswakefield.co.uk in Wakefield a couple of times. He's not bad, that said he's not the best either but he's cheap and not a cock which goes a long way.

[richardmorris]

R?

Lemon sole. Much more expensive than Dover sole. And very delicious it is too!

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_sole

[chatsharris]

Next doors fence blew over into my garden in Feb , after a few days it was still there, &squashing my plants , so i pushed it back up and propped it up with some 4x2s at 45 degrees into my lawn . still like it ...but i 'm not particularly bothered. Yesterday , I was chatting to the guy ,and said if he got some posts ,I'd give him a hand to fix it . He thinks its not his fence and is going to look at the deeds .... All my plans of the boundary have the T marked on his side and my T is on the left hand fence ..

I was quite lucky, last year when it was blowing a gale it knocked over our fence into our side of the garden, just took the post out. I wasn't aware of it because I was away, but my neighbour knowing it was just MrsHarris at home, went and got a new post and reconcreted it in for us, even though it was our side. He got a few beer tokens as a way of thanks for that one!

[Paul Dupart]

Does anyone actually make a decent strimmer?  I've had about 4 over the years, 3 electric and a 2 stroke.  They all seem to work ok with the factory fitted spool of line, but whenever you have to rewind it, that's when it all goes wrong - snapping, not feeding, jamming (not in the Bob Marley way).  Garden is probably a 'larger small' garden, if you get what I mean, and electric is preferred as cheaper and quieter.  Bosch machine got bent in 'alf over my knee and chucked in the wheely bin this afternoon, bit like a golfer does with his clubs after a shit game.  And I'm only strimming grass, naffin' 'eavy.

 

If anyone has found one that actually does what it sez on the tin, and keeps on doing it,  I'd be interested to know what you've got....

 

Thanks PD

[madrat]

No they are all utter shit, forget the line and get a bag of cable ties. Use them in the 2 holes the line is fed through.

[Tamworthbay]

The loud music annoys me too. Some new tenants moved into the cottage opposite and played music non stop. Which royally fucked me off as my cottage has single glazed windows and I could here the "boom, boom, boom" of the shitty bass non stop. When it was still going at 11:30 one night I went round and asked them to turn it off. It kept going (albeit quieter) for a week and I was very close to complaining to the landlords about it (they live on site) when it suddenly stopped. I think they'd heard it too, and had a word...

Why oh why do people play ear-spitting lot loud music while driving slowly or sat in traffic? It's so bloody antisocial.

I did let off the van driver doing such at some traffic lights in Ipswich a couple of weeks ago, but only because he was listening to Dire Straits. Generally, the music listened to by these twats is the most awful, generic, modern dross imaginable, and it's painful to be stuck near them.

Old twats who live behind my next door but one neighbour decided 7.15am on a bank holiday was a decent time to start using a lawn mower, shredder and hedge trimmer. Both of my neighbours were as pissed off as me. We have decided that 2am might be a good time for the three us to test out my new 1000w bass amp, especially as we aren’t in their direct sight line so the twunts won’t know where its coming from.

[yellowperil]

Little un has the "Chickenpops" and I have the absolutely worse case of Manflu ever recorded, so we are both feeling sorry for ourselves.

 

She has been a brave little girl with her ailment, Daddy not so much, because I have been more illed than any other Daddy.

 

I haven't been further than a few forays into the garden, since I got home from work on friday.

 

To put the icing on the cake, the wife's Fiesta FTPd today and the RAC man diagnosed an buggered injector. That's not going to be cheap

 

 

Worse weekend ever!

[madrat]

Little un has the "Chickenpops" and I have the absolutely worse case of Manflu ever recorded, so we are both feeling sorry for ourselves.

 

She has been a brave little girl with her ailment, Daddy not so much, because I have been more illed than any other Daddy.

 

I haven't been further than a few forays into the garden, since I got home from work on friday.

 

To put the icing on the cake, the wife's Fiesta FTPd today and the RAC man diagnosed an buggered injector. That's not going to be cheap

 

 

Worse weekend ever!

I didn't get chicken pox until I was 39!

[SiC]

Does anyone actually make a decent strimmer? I've had about 4 over the years, 3 electric and a 2 stroke. They all seem to work ok with the factory fitted spool of line, but whenever you have to rewind it, that's when it all goes wrong - snapping, not feeding, jamming (not in the Bob Marley way). Garden is probably a 'larger small' garden, if you get what I mean, and electric is preferred as cheaper and quieter. Bosch machine got bent in 'alf over my knee and chucked in the wheely bin this afternoon, bit like a golfer does with his clubs after a shit game. And I'm only strimming grass, naffin' 'eavy.

 

If anyone has found one that actually does what it sez on the tin, and keeps on doing it, I'd be interested to know what you've got....

 

Thanks PD

Stihl or Husqvarna as I've been told by my wife's friend who is a tree surgeon and landscape maintenance man is what to go for. Just don't go for the cheapest one they do.

[Christine]

Stihl or Husqvarna as I've been told by my wife's friend who is a tree surgeon and landscape maintenance man is what to go for. Just don't go for the cheapest one they do.

I have a Honda 4 stroke,  quiet ,powerful ,  never fails to start , no premix shit .... but its heavy and vibrates a lot so you don't wanna be using it for more than 15 minutes

[cobblers]

I really hate summer. It's often warm which I'm not keen on at all, but I can manage that with air conditioning.

 

But sunny weather ruins everywhere.

 

Normal nice quiet places out in the peak district that we take the dogs every week are now full of fairweather dickheads, with their untrained dogs running around off their leads and giving our dogs grief.

 

The pubs we'll go to for a quiet pint and some food fairly often? Full of dickheads.

 

Can't even drive cross country to get somewhere reasonable because if the suns out there's a 3 mile tailback to get past Chatsworth.

Countryside carparks full, cars parked all over the place blocking roads. Litter everywhere.

 

None of these people seem to venture out anywhere unless it's very warm.I saw some news report on the telly today where there was a beach so jam packed full that people could barely even move. Why? It's just as warm on your own fucking garden, Why not stay there instead? How does driving 50 miles to be packed inbetween 3000 other cunts on some sand make your bank holiday weekend any better?

 

As far as I'm concerned, it needs to be February all year round.

[wuvvum]

After spending most of the weekend fitting the new cat to the C4 to get it ready for its retest, the bastard fucking brake lights have stopped working.  This car really is testing my patience to the absolute limit.

[chodweaver]

Does anyone actually make a decent strimmer? I've had about 4 over the years, 3 electric and a 2 stroke. They all seem to work ok with the factory fitted spool of line, but whenever you have to rewind it, that's when it all goes wrong - snapping, not feeding, jamming (not in the Bob Marley way). Garden is probably a 'larger small' garden, if you get what I mean, and electric is preferred as cheaper and quieter. Bosch machine got bent in 'alf over my knee and chucked in the wheely bin this afternoon, bit like a golfer does with his clubs after a shit game. And I'm only strimming grass, naffin' 'eavy.

 

If anyone has found one that actually does what it sez on the tin, and keeps on doing it, I'd be interested to know what you've got....

 

Thanks PD

I've had similar experiences with strimmers. So last time, I bought the Bosch AFS 23-37. I can't remember if it came with a poxy reel head and nylon line, because I only ever use it with the head shown. The lines are plastic coated steel and last ages, though there are two grades - black and the slightly less vicious red ones. Pricey for a strimmer, but it doesn't shirk. The handle has a hidden place for storing spare lines, so you can save some money by nicking more lines from the handle of the display model in B&Q. If you were a scoundrel, like.

[DeeJay]

I didn't get chicken pox until I was 39!

I've never had chicken pox, but saying that, I've never shagged any chickens.

[Datsuncog]

I've had similar experiences with strimmers. So last time, I bought the Bosch AFS 23-37. I can't remember if it came with a poxy reel head and nylon line, because I only ever use it with the head shown. The lines are plastic coated steel and last ages, though there are two grades - black and the slightly less vicious red ones. Pricey for a strimmer, but it doesn't shirk. The handle has a hidden place for storing spare lines, so you can save some money by nicking more lines from the handle of the display model in B&Q. If you were a scoundrel, like.

 

Useful to know... been fighting with an (inherited) Flymo strimmer for a sizable chunk of this afternoon...

 

General process was...

• Spend ten minutes unspooling and feeding the nylon line through the stupid holes and trying to secure them;
• Two seconds of strimming lank grass before both ends of line snap (often smartly striking a portion of bare skin in their hasty escape)
• Repeat all fucking afternoon until you're begging for winter to return and bury everything in a blanket of snow (including yourself)

 

 

[dave21478]

get a Stihl strimmer and add a tap n go head. Load it with Oregon branded 3mm star cross section strimmer line and relax. No tangles, no jams, when the line wears down or you snap it on a rock, just accelerate and tap the bottom on firm ground and it automatically feeds out a few more inches of line.

In summer season Im rarely doing less than 20 hours of purely strimming per week so there is no way I am fucking about with crap.

The quality of the line makes ALL the difference. A few years ago I thought I would be a smart-arse and bought a bulk reel of unbranded line. Still 3mm star cross section, but it was dogshit. It wore out literally four times faster than the Oregon stuff, and would often jam in the strimmer head.

 

If you buy a cheaper strimmer (and TBH the cheap Chinese ones arent too bad for occasional use if you look after tham and run them on Aspen, not petrol) definitely invest in the Stihl head and Oregon line. Might need a thread adaptor, depending on the fittings of the cheaper strimmer.

[twosmoke300]

Brother was a groundskeeper for the local council and swears by the Stihl with the bump head too . 

[TataBobu]

The little kid can't help it but his parents should do something to quieten him down.

 

The problem is this is not always possible. The parent usually knows when it can be done and when not, but to the outsider it looks like he or she is not trying.

 

Does anyone actually make a decent strimmer?  I've had about 4 over the years, 3 electric and a 2 stroke.  They all seem to work ok with the factory fitted spool of line, but whenever you have to rewind it, that's when it all goes wrong - snapping, not feeding, jamming (not in the Bob Marley way).  Garden is probably a 'larger small' garden, if you get what I mean, and electric is preferred as cheaper and quieter.  Bosch machine got bent in 'alf over my knee and chucked in the wheely bin this afternoon, bit like a golfer does with his clubs after a shit game.  And I'm only strimming grass, naffin' 'eavy.

 

If anyone has found one that actually does what it sez on the tin, and keeps on doing it,  I'd be interested to know what you've got....

 

Thanks PD

 

[twosmoke300]

Yeh sometimes you just need to let the kid cry it out . Luckily our girl is not bad but brothers little boy just wont stop no matter what you do . Its usually when hes tired so you just need to let him tire himself out and go to sleep.

[BorniteIdentity]

Norfolk.

 

I've made it my life's work to SHUT PEOPLE UP whenever they start waxing lyrical about the place.  I'm like "Alright mate FFS keep it down" or "Let's just keep it to ourselves, right?" but no - word has got out.

 

Wells was full yesterday - and by that I mean it was just off limits.  Fair enough, it's a nice place and a bit "fashionable" these days - so we hopped along to B******er but that was packed and the tides weren't on our side.  We also gave [REDACTED] a look before slumming it in Hunstanton.  Now, I've been going to Hunstanton ever since I passed my driving test 18 years ago - I have NEVER seen it that busy before.  We got lucky in a side street right on the front and parked up, slightly guiltily, for a couple of hours gratis.  All the cash machines we could find had been pillaged of every last tenner, and thus we had to wait until the journey home to get an ice cream at McDonalds. Hunstanton to Kings Lynn took well over an hour, but we're not even at my grump yet (the above is all par for the course really)

 

HAYFEVER ATTACK.  I never get it in my eyes... ever.  Just nose and throat, but my left eye was so bad I had to drive home with one eye.  It was agony.  Fortunately, has passed this morning, but can only put it down to the change of medication (I'm now on fexofenadine as it doesn't make me drowsy) and a bit of bad luck.  Fortunately, a shower when home whilst I forced my eyes open for 10 minutes has returned me to a state of stereophonic vision. 

 

Stupid body, you are not under attack.  Calm the fuck down.