The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

Never encountered either of these and I do >90% of my shopping in Aldi & Lidl.

I have mentioned previously that the customers in the Lidl that I use most are predominantly Eastern European and a nicer and more considerate crowd you couldn't imagine.

The thing that winds me up when grocery shopping is invasion of space, I have issues with this in any situation, but hate having someone literally breathing down my neck, also being gently* shoved in the back of my legs by a trolley and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. I hate shopping, but tried doing it online and it was worse with the stuff missing, which meant me going to the supermarket anyway.

[Louise2cv]

Never encountered either of these and I do >90% of my shopping in Aldi & Lidl.

I have mentioned previously that the customers in the Lidl that I use most are predominantly Eastern European and a nicer and more considerate crowd you couldn't imagine.

Yeah, I mentioned it to my sis who is a Lidl regular and she hadn't noticed it in her store (Midlands).

 

It's definitely a regular thing at Aldi and Lidl up here though.

[Cavcraft]

The thing that winds me up when grocery shopping is invasion of space, I have issues with this in any situation, but hate having someone literally breathing down my neck, also being gently* shoved in the back of my legs by a trolley and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. I hate shopping, but tried doing it online and it was worse with the stuff missing, which meant me going to the supermarket anyway.

 

People who nudge into you from behind REALLY piss me off. As a rule, I find reversing into them with elbows back usually does the trick, or a death stare copied off my missus.

[clayts450]

and the latest where the person behind me does not wait for me to get all my stuff on the conveyor before they start unloading theirs. 

 

^Whereas I'm in the polar opposite camp.

 

Get yer shit off the conveyer belt and let me at it whilst I stand here waiting for you to carefully place your items one by one into your chosen receptacle and/or fart about with money shit. This irks me particularly in Wilkos, where the checkouts iz smoll and I usually have about eleventy billion things (often cat and bird food) which I have to unload.

 

I pack as I go and race the cashier to the end usually having my card ready to swipe whilst placing the last item in the bag with the other hand. Well-oiled machine me.

 

Do you shop in Wilkos in Bulwell by any chance ? I fear I may have to challenge you to a conveyor belt duel, Sire.

[clayts450]

^ PS I hate shopping too - the least time I spend in shops the better. Very much a 10 minute supermarket sweeper, me.

[Guest Hooli]

The ones that annoy me most in shops are the arse wipes who leave their trolley blocking the aisle while they browse the shelves. These days their trolley tends to move on it's own* to the far side of the shop. Another bloody annoying one is kids in trollies, not in the kiddie seat but in the actual trolley, oi ya scruffy fuck nuggets those are for people to put food in ffs!

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

 

 

It's his responsibility to provide adequate access to the path, as I understand it.  You probably know this already but you can report him for it...

[Guest Hooli]

It's his responsibility to provide adequate access to the path, as I understand it.  You probably know this already but you can report him for it...

 

Indeed I was thinking of doing just that.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Hot day + vinyl seats = moistened shirts:

 

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I overheated, the car overheated, my camera overheated. Fuck this warm weather shit.

 

Also YouTube won't accept the videos I filmed for reasons known only to itself.

 

Reminds me of my first 'big' journey.  Two weeks after I'd passed my test, I drove from Gravesend to Hereford to see my Grandparents.

 

The journey there was epic given that I didn't want to use motorways but nevertheless I made it safely.

 

Bear in mind that I'm 6'2" and a bit overweight - even when I was 18 and the fact that I drove a base Ford Ka.  On the way back, I ended up on the M25.  In a four-hour traffic jam.  In temperatures exceeding 32C.

 

I've never known anything quite like it.

[richardmorris]

Do they? that's never happened to me & I keep my friends list well below 20.

I have no friends ( surprise!) but don’t have this. Nor do I have many adverts.

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & at the other end of the food production chain some farmers...

 

Out cycling today & some twat had quite obviously driven into a hedge with his tractor to push the bramble bushes completely across the bridleway in the trees to the side of his field. It hadn't done his fence much good either. Then at the top of the hill the bridleway goes across the field, except farmer giles hadn't left a gap in his planting so diagonally across a bloody large field I had to carry my bike at shoulder height & force a way through.

 

FFS.

 

Just copied the pic off my phone. This was actually a low section, in some of the worse bits the bike didn't touch the floor when put down.

 

[MikeR]

just been past Winter hill twice this weekend ..... it is just a mass of smoke , and the smoke is drifting across the land like a big cloud !!!!!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Do they? that's never happened to me & I keep my friends list well below 20.

It seems so unless there's something I've missed. I even got the phone to get the desktop version and it still did it.

[xtriple]

Just do your BIG shopping online. I have just done mine, it will be delivered free of charge on Tuesday evening by a man with a van. So much better than having to go to the supermarket and mix with the great unwashed

 

 

 

I do still have to go tot he local Co-op every couple of days for fags and Jumbones - you know, the essentials!

[DodgeRover]

I do still have to go tot he local Co-op every couple of days for fags, Jumbones and picking up hot ladies - you know, the essentials!

Edited for accuracy there

[beko1987]

just been past Winter hill twice this weekend ..... it is just a mass of smoke , and the smoke is drifting across the land like a big cloud !!!!!

I've watched the news for the first time in ages and have seen footage of it, looks bloody scary!

[dozeydustman]

Flies. Been swarmed by them for the last 2 days. Empty the kitchen bin 3 times a day, don't leave wet cat food out festering all day, keeping on top of washing up etc. Millions buzzing around outside, in our garden, next door's garden, and the house after that.

 

That, the ridiculous 33 Celsius heat (according to the Toyota) and 70% humidity, plus OMGAIRCONFAIL while on way to shops has made both Mrs D and myself a bit grumpy today.

[danthecapriman]

It’s been fu****g hot this weekend. You’ll never* see me complaining about the weather, but I’ve just spent the whole weekend building a very hefty shed/garden building. Knackering in this heat, but today was the day to put the roof felt on! My word, I’m absolutely spent now!!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Holy shit, that car would have had so much damage by the time they returned to it to n my drive. Then again I’d probably be in jail. It’s jacking up my blood pressure just reading it

My considered response may have been a nail or two under each tyre. No criminal damage done by putting nails on your own drive and letting somebody else drive over them.

[chaseracer]

My considered response may have been a nail or two under each tyre. No criminal damage done by putting nails on your own drive and letting somebody else electing, of their own free will, to drive over them.

 

FTFY.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Alternatively, if we are getting clever. A small sign, a clamp and profit.

[clayts450]

Just do your BIG shopping online. I have just done mine, it will be delivered free of charge on Tuesday evening by a man with a van. I then have to work out how to get the supermarket to come back later with the right subsitutions

 

 

 

Worst supermarket fails 

 

Here’s our list of the weirdest substitutions, as told to us by the shoppers who received them: 

 

1. ‘I received a sack of onions when I had ordered a bottle of white wine.’ 

 

2. ‘I got extra strong mints in place of beef mince.’ 

 

3. ‘I once ordered a pack of condoms for my husband and we received a pregnancy-testing kit – presumably for myself!’ 

 

4. ‘Dog food was put in instead of clothes hangers.’ 

 

5. ‘I got sent a bar of Dairy Milk instead of a premium salad.’ 

 

6. ‘I ordered mayo and had it subbed for window cleaner.’ 

 

7. ‘I received nappies instead of toilet paper.’ 

 

8. ‘Baby food was replaced with tampons.’ 

 

9. ‘I was given a bottle of Chardonnay when I wanted some apple juice.’ 

 

10. ‘I ordered gluten-free bread and got dog food.’ 

 

11. ‘Tissues substituted for sausages.’ 

 

12. ‘They sent tinfoil instead of bin liners.’ 

 

13. ‘I asked for a punnet of peaches and they substituted it for peach shampoo.’

[SiC]

We ordered some strawberries from Occado. The substitution was strawberry flavoured condoms.

[STUNO]

Is Carpenter back on long term shortages list not just Canterbury?

 

Probably, but enquire and the officials at NZ house will know exactly the requirements.

[Timewaster]

She is a selfish twat who knows where I live. Can't be more than 20 - hence as a bloke in my mid 30s and a scruffy looking bugger, my trying to keep a low profile, being polite, and doing everything I can to not inflame any situation as I know it'll only blow up in my face.

 

She's only gone and reported *me* to the plod for harassment apparently...had the knock at the door while I was in the middle of dinner.

 

FFS.

I'd love to know how that conversation went!

 

Did the woman try getting her story in first incase you exact some horrible and well deserved revenge?

[Rave]

Just copied the pic off my phone. This was actually a low section, in some of the worse bits the bike didn't touch the floor when put down.

 

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It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

[adw1977]

It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

Well if the brambles put most people off using it then the crops will grow over the rest of it.

[MorrisItalSLX]

We ordered some strawberries from Occado. The substitution was strawberry flavoured condoms.

 

Is that what you told the missus 

[Guest Hooli]

It must be a fairly little used bridleway then. To be fair I'm not sure how a farmer could reasonably plough and sow a field of wheat or similar while leaving the route of the bridleway clearly demarcated. What I've previously observed on other rights of way is that within a few days of ploughing and sowing, regular users mark the path again and from then on regular use keeps the crop from growing over it.

 

There's no excuse for the brambles though, agreed.

 

I've seen others on it & I last rode it about six weeks ago.