The grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

i blame them squirrels......

 

little bastards,

 

with their twitchy noses and big bushey tails!

*KA-BANG!*

 

*squeak!*

 

*thud*

[timolloyd]

In 2013 I hired a rusty old Transit and had to stop fairly quickly on the A27. The Focus behind didn't.

 

The result? See pics below, but Focus airbags, driver with bloody face, Transit slightly bent rear doors (they still opened and closed!) and towing hook

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The Focus' grill had attached itself to the Transit towing hook!

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Oh dear!

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Hire firm just kept using it as is (probably)

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Ouch!

Knowing Choices in Crawley, I bet that van will never be repaired.

[Remspoor]

Just had a walnut whip, or a whip as they are now called apparently, some bastard has decided to nick the walnut, presumably to save money whilst blaming nut allergies or some crap I bet. Another childhood treat ruined, won’t buy another.

 

Never touch a Curly Wurly someone has nicked the end.

[Frogchod]

Speeding ticket ????

125 in a 110 zone.

45 euro fine if I pay up quick. At least I can pay in my local bar/tabac ☺

[hairnet]

Opening one of the background beverages

 

This

[AlabamaShrimp]

-Noisy twats - why the fuck does everyone want to shout everything all the time these days?

Currently have this from some gobby woman two houses away in their back garden. Not one of them seems to know how to talk in a normal voice, of course there's some shite music too.

 

Tbh it's not that loud and but the random cackling every so often it fucking annoying. Still better than a few weeks ago when it was the bloke from there and his mates as one guy must have been a professional fog horn.

[AlabamaShrimp]

As I understand it, this particular mp has form for blocking things. Friday afternoon is typically used by the government to usher through laws without debate. By objecting he has forced a debate. From a birds eye view it may seem like an reasonable law to get through, but this mp is affording it due process and debate.

 

 

This

 

People have jumped on this MP saying him and his mates that do this are twats and blocking important stuff but really they are trying to stop laws getting passed that haven't been debated.

 

What if he was trying to stop something that no one really wanted but was forced through anyway?

[chaseracer]

^ It's a fair point, which has been mooted previously.  But Chope IS a twat, and goes out of his way to demonstrate this.

[AlabamaShrimp]

^ It's a fair point, which has been mooted previously. But Chope IS a twat, and goes out of his way to demonstrate this.

Tbh he might be I haven't looked into it but then aren't most MPs twats?

 

I don't understand how something can become a law (no matter what it is) with consequences of people going to jail without it being properly debated on by the house. Even if only a few MPs turn up to see it through at least its gone through a procedure as opposed to just being 'this is bad, the whole party's voting for it, you have to too'.

[Guest Hooli]

Tbh he might be I haven't looked into it but then aren't most MPs twats?

 

I don't understand how something can become a law (no matter shag it is) with consequences of people going to jail without it being properly debated on by the house. Even if only a few MPs turn up to see it through at least its gone through a procedure as opposed to just being 'this is bad, the whole party's voting for it, you have to too'.

 

I think the first part is a requirement for the job. A few weeks after IDS quit he started talking perfect sense & saying what everyone wanted him to say when in office as PM. Portillo was an absolute spunkbubble in Parliament, but seems a decent chap on that railway journeys tv show.

 

Agreed with your second point too, the whole idea of parliament is they debate these things.

[chaseracer]

Because if a Bill goes to Committee - as the Upskirt Bill would - chances are the debate would involve more MPs than it might in the Chamber!  

 

Especially on a Friday...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Then do it on a Monday?

 

If it's that important make them turn up, make them give a shit and do the job they were voted to do instead. Is the committee that would been the next step made up of MPs or civil servants?

 

I know next to sod all about all this by the way but for me no matter how many turn up a debate is always better than a committee as they tend all be out for the same thing.

[Cavcraft]

‘£750’

 

Yes, that’s an excellent offer. Shall I fill the tank and get my chauffeur to personally deliver it, and leave a Rolex in the glovebox for you?

 

{silence}

[AlabamaShrimp]

OK moving on from shit I know nothing a out to stuff I do and not really a grump but some bloke (no idea who really as sorted by my wife of Facebook) to spray weedkiller all over the front garden. Looks like he's done a shit job and if he has I can be all smug and shit saying 'I told you so, why didn't you let me buy that giant drum of instant death' anyway...

 

He says 'is that and XR 3?

 

'XR2 are Fiestas but no it's a normal one'

 

'you don't see many of them... How fast...expensive now' all the usual stuff.

 

I'm not trying to be a twat but it's a 30 year old Ford course it's slow and expensive they all are. Funny when you say the Frontera is only 5 years newer they just don't get it.

[Zelandeth]

There's a bloody idiot somewhere around here who's got a *heavily* modified Focus ST. It's looked like a drop out from Fast & The Furious for about a year - on account of looking too ridiculous.

 

The most recent addition is an antilag system...which means that it's sounded like someone's wandering around with an AK-47 on the main roads around here. Would they just hurry up, get nicked and have the thing cubed already? It's driving me, the dog and the rest of the household mad. ... probably the rest of Milton Keynes too.

 

Scared the crap out of me yesterday when he decided to bounce it off the rev limiter while sitting at the traffic lights - I was two cars behind, with my windows opened - I honestly thought someone was taking shots at somebody.

 

It sounds like we're living in a war zone right now.

[DeeJay]

Why isn't the use of the whip in parliment considered bullying in the workplace?

[New POD]

How's this for a grump?

 

The only jobs going within 25 miles are either part time or carer jobs.

I haven't had a job less than 60 miles from home in 9 years. The furthest was 200 miles and am currently working 95 miles from home.

[Zelandeth]

To be fair, that is doing it properly

It would be doing it properly if it was being used competitively on a track. Not scaring the fluff off people in sleepy housing estates in Milton Keynes.

[New POD]

Don't be daft, it took 10mins of searching to find a cup to be able to get a drink of tap water!

in which case it's a shit plan.

[Andyrew]

I was reversing today slowing in a communal car park, only on idle as it's bit of a tight area,I'd checked my mirrors and then I was dad reversing looking over my shoulder out the rear screen, then bang.

 

I slammed the brakes on and turned around. Looked in door mirror to see a bloke getting up from behind the motor.

 

He comes to the door and is going off on one. I apologised and said that I didn't see him. And he must have been in my blind spot?

 

I was certain no one was there as I'd just seen him park his car and I was looking out the rear window.

 

Then he went and picked up the phone he was using, From infront of the car he had stepped out from behind that's why I hadnt seen him.

[Noel Tidybeard]

It does surprise me it's not some sort of assault or similar already.

 

Does it apply to kilts?

 

possibly but knowing this country and its wierd laws* it would be your fault!

 

*e.g- if an man sees a naked woman in her house through a window, he is considered to be a peeping tom but if the same woman see the same man naked in his own house through a window, he would be seen to be exposing himself!

[Pillock]

Does the law actually work that way? I didn't know there were gender specific rules.

 

I would argue it depends more if the (man/woman) in the house is waving their bits around and banging on the window, or have they just got caught out with the curtains not quite closed?

Was the (man/woman) outside walking past or up a ladder with a camera?

[AlabamaShrimp]

No, the above post is nonsense.

You can be naked in public perfectly legally, so being observed through the window of your own house is not automatically indecent exposure.

It's this.

 

It all comes down to the stupid sentence. Alarmed, harassed or distressed. If no one's any of these then, as such, nothings happened.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

It would be doing it properly if it was being used competitively on a track. Not scaring the fluff off people in sleepy housing estates in Milton Keynes.

Noisy little twat seems to visit Macdonalds at Kingston late at night and then drives up Chaffron Way past the back of my house sounding like Diwali, New Years Eve and Bonfire night rolled into one.

[Cavcraft]

Shame one man can stop this happening. Holds up more important business.

 

Down blousing?

[yes oui si]

I haven't had a job less than 60 miles from home in 9 years. The furthest was 200 miles and am currently working 95 miles from home.

Congratulations.

[Mr Lobster]

Currently supposed to be setting up a stand at a car show. It's raining. I'm 300 miles from home and won't see my kids on Father's Day. So I'm sat in the back of the van on the internet instead and feeling sorry for myself.

 

Some days I feel like having an actual, regular job would be a big improvement.

 

Will get my shit together shortly and maybe earn some money.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Today's Grump and the ultimate of First World Problems.

 

Bought a house with Lady Grumpius, with help from very elderly relatives - who came to see it yesterday and are very pleased with it (according to my Dad).

 

When in the fuck of buggery did we acquire so much shit?!  Two of the upstairs bedrooms are literally unnavigable due to the sheer number of boxes and assorted crap.  I can't even get into the rooms properly to start sorting them.  And I'm back at work tomorrow and I cannot be fucked.

 

I'm lucky to have my own home and possessions.  Very lucky.  But bugger me.

[Saabnut]

Down at Le Mans for the 24 hour race, 1035 miles from home, camping and it is sunny and warm. The grump? The clutch has gone in the Cobra. Will see if it makes it home under its own steam or if I will have to use my expensive European breakdown cover

[dollywobbler]

Down at Le Mans for the 24 hour race, 1035 miles from home, camping and it is sunny and warm. The grump? The clutch has gone in the Cobra. Will see if it makes it home under its own steam or if I will have to use my expensive European breakdown cover

 

Bugger!