The grumpy thread

[DeeJay]

 "don't buy too much in the first place". Cheers for that, dickheads.

I'll bet they're still laughing at that one. 

[puddlethumper]

A bit out of date because it was a week ago but I was driving up the M40 at 2am on a Monday morning. 

Away from near London there was very little on the road. So I'm popping along at 85/90 and on 3 occasions I come up behind a middle lane hogger. No lights to be seen in front, so at least a mile or two with nothing in front of them.

Tossers, as has been said previously.

[DodgeRover]

A bit out of date because it was a week ago but I was driving up the M40 at 2am on a Monday morning.

Away from near London there was very little on the road. So I'm popping along at 85/90 and on 3 occasions I come up behind a middle lane hogger. No lights to be seen in front, so at least a mile or two with nothing in front of them.

Tossers, as has been said previously.

How's progress going with the estate?

[abelw44]

Just outside a town near me on the Fosseway, they've been resurfacing, which is great. However, it means you're now merrily driving along, minding your own business at 60mph when you come accross a solitary sign that says "Ramp Ahead". Approximately a yard later you hit a vertical shelf in the road that produces a buttock clenching, toe curling noise when it is struck. As if the poor VAG shite wasn't ropey enough already...

 

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[purplebargeken]

Multi-grump (saves time if I do it all in one hit I guess).

 

Dropped Android Motorola phone, screen fractured in a squillion places. Have old Nokia, it's ok but no WhatsApp. I prefer WA and apart from actually phoning people it's the best thing ever. I keep loads of info on the notes section, now can't access. Not helpful when your memory is shit.

 

111 - hmm, great idea, not so great in reality. My manager if from 111.....

 

Got distracted today whilst sorting garage out, forgot to eat and drink as per schedule. Drove home, parked. Then became very ill indeed, sweating fucking buckets, could hardly move, stand or do anything. Stranded in the car, half in, half out for ages before managed to get out and walk to the house. No fucker offered to help.

 

Parky, how are you feeling fella? Whereabouts in the land are you? (Not a grump)

[chaseracer]

Hope you're feeling a bit better now, Kenneth.

[purplebargeken]

Yes mate, felt utterly bollocksed at the time. Highly unpleasant, however, on the bright side it is now much easier for someone to pick me up off  the deck if I do collapse. Every cloud and all that lol.

[purplebargeken]

Forgot to add. Heard  on Friday from the M i L that the entire family had enjoyed a lovely meal at the local Turkish (literally 5 mins away). . 

 

Well thanks for the invite folks. Not a fucking word was said to us.  I will remember that next time you want anything.

[beko1987]

My back hurts after driving the Zafira to the FoD and back. I gave the seat a good adjusting too as I was going further than 3 miles in it...

 

Also gave it a bit of a caning on the way back and it spat a load of shit out the back and picked up a bit, well done Amy. She also forgot to mention the brake judder slowing from speed. I'll forget about that too for now...

[SiC]

Cat went out this morning and not seen her all day, even though we've been in. Usually she comes back at least once during the day. Not back yet either. Getting really worried, especially with this heat.

[dome]

I’ve had to leave the reggie band I play triangle in . I got fed up with it, it was just one ting after another.

 

When I played in a reggae band my missus never looked forward to doing my hair for me before I went on stage

 

She was dreading it

[cort16]

Ha ha !

[SiC]

Cat went out this morning and not seen her all day, even though we've been in. Usually she comes back at least once during the day. Not back yet either. Getting really worried, especially with this heat.

She's back. Thank god for that.

 

A lot of cat hissing outside, so I suspect she may have been cornered for a long while. I was getting extremely worried that I may unwittingly split coolant on the floor earlier and she drank some.

[New POD]

Friday the fucking thirteenth can fuck right off.

So can my NHS dentist's receptionist.

So at 1pm I bit into a cherry. and stupid knob that I am put the full force of my jaw into the stone. ..

 

stuff about the nasty receptionist

 

I thanked them for their efforts and explained how my wife had got it sorted.

I don't normally complain. But this morning I had a text asking me to rate the service I had.

5 good 1 poor.

I put 1. then a text to explain why the score is so poor.

8l

[HillmanImp]

When I played in a reggae band my missus never looked forward to doing my hair for me before I went on stage

 

She was dreading it

If she refused to do it Jamaica?

[Saabnut]

The Bentley T2 Turbo is refusing to start, not normally a major problem but I am 939 miles from home in France!

I think i have isolated the problem but a call to the specialists tomorrow should confirm and also see if I can fix it or whether the AA are going to be relied on.

Local wine fayre today, so that should take my mind off it!

[purplebargeken]

Found a google earth picture of the house that my nan lived in when I was a kid. It was a huge house, quite grand, cellar and everything. Huge sweeping staircase, attic room. Really cool. She moved out when my grandad died. It was converted into flats for a while, now it is just all tinned up. 

 

Google map 88 Hartington Road, Liverpool to see it. I can't do a link. It's the brown, tinned up house that looks really sad

[DeeJay]

Small world.

30 years ago Cousin bought No 84 the house next door but one (on the other side of the flats) when he was at Liverpool Uni.

[clayts450]

Cat went out this morning and not seen her all day, even though we've been in. Usually she comes back at least once during the day. Not back yet either. Getting really worried, especially with this heat.

 

Same here with one of mine - they do seem to go missing in the heat - she'll be laid up somewhere cool and probably finding her own dinner. Is she chipped ?

 

EDIT Ah good, she's back. Mine isn't yet. She is chipped.

[Cavcraft]

Don't really know what you're moaning about, tbh. My dyslexia is so bad, I bought a car off eBay last week with no reserve and the bloody thing won't go backwards.

[clayts450]

Same here with one of mine - they do seem to go missing in the heat - she'll be laid up somewhere cool and probably finding her own dinner. Is she chipped ?

 

EDIT Ah good, she's back. Mine isn't yet. She is chipped.

 

Looks like Trixie has been and gone whilst I was out shopping. Cat food disappeared and it won't be the other one as he's as thick as pigshit and has forgotten how a cat flap operates.

 

Meanwhile, down to coppers from the back of the sofa as nearly payday M7. Stumbled across some High Street shopping vouchers in my wallet, so did a wild bird feed/cat food/shower gel for monkey boy run in Wilko, clocking up exactly £10, self same value as said vouchers. Get to the till. Computer says no. High Street shopping voucher interface broked, so had to pay out of my rapidly dwindling cash funds. 

 

Cheered up a little when I got my weekly food shop down to £9.73, courtesy of Heron Foods and Greggs. Normally spend £25 in Sainsbury's at least.

 

Looks like it'll be another week of shovelling in 20p pieces into the parking ticket machine for work this week, and mixing my transport to maximise what available fuel is still left in the fleet.

[John F]

Bollocks to politics and religion, but most especially bollocks to running out of welding gas late on a Saturday afternoon, very close to completing the job, when I was hoping to be painting & reassembling the back end of my V8 Disco today.

 

Fucking grrr!

 

(Weldathon thread to follow when I've finished)

[dozeydustman]

Family from Isle of Wight and Manchester visited us this weekend, decided we'd go for a pub lunch today. I was thinking some nice plate of ploughman's in one of the many fine country pubs within 20 minutes drive from here.

 

Harvester. Normally fine for cheap eats.

 

Now we're back home 3 of us (inc. me) are fighting over the Khasi with terrible stomach upsets & feeling nauseous. 3 different meals, common denominator in each one was a jacket potato.

 

Wife's popped to Sainsbury's to get some Imodium. Ruined my afternoon, how my niece & her husband getting back to Manc are going to be with dodgy tums it's ruined their day too.

[dozeydustman]

Don't take immodium if you've got food poisoning.

You need to evacuate the nastiness, not keep it inside.

 

 

We've not taken any yet, niece and her hubby are going to wait til their guts calm down a bit before they leave, and take the Imodium on the journey with them just in case they're needed.

 

To add insult to the injury, Waynetta across the road has just come back having not seen her since the police incident the other week, I hope it's temporary as the gobby old cow's voice makes me shudder. She's mouthing off at the Waynelets and Wayne right as I'm typing, further ruining Sunday.

[richardmorris]

Blood thirsty horse flies have put me off walking in the countryside for the last fortnight.  I went out today - same lane - and bliss.  No horse flies, just loads of butterflies. Very nice, but sweaty.

Thankfully the bite I got in swinley ( maybe a spider reading up on things like this ) was helped by the antihistamine cream. Still on the tablets. It did have me worried though, as I’ve never had a reaction like it before.

 

Whilst out cycling in France though I was bitten by a real horse fly. Tenacious sod, and painless too. First I noticed was something running down my leg. Turned out to be my blood! Fly, an inch long, still drinking and me loosing vital fluids. Anyway, got rid of the fly and cleaned up the bite with a methanol wipe. Got blood on my new Rapha wiggins shorts too!

They’re supposed to be painful but it’s ok so far, perhaps as it’s on a fleshy part just where the shorts end. Covered it in the cream and it seems fine.

 

Again, if I keel over, you can tell all this to the coroner.

[lesapandre]

Richard. You can get very good spray on antiseptic in pharmacys in France. Take some paracetemol for the swelling. I'd recommend always wearing insect repellant in France - get one with the pump spray not an aerosol one which spray most of the DEET into the air!

[lesapandre]

Pharmacys will be closed today now but if you find one in the morning they will be able to advise. There are also nasty mosquitoes about including the Tiger variety.

[richardmorris]

Family from Isle of Wight and Manchester visited us this weekend, decided we'd go for a pub lunch today. I was thinking some nice plate of ploughman's in one of the many fine country pubs within 20 minutes drive from here.

 

Harvester. Normally fine for cheap eats.

 

Now we're back home 3 of us (inc. me) are fighting over the Khasi with terrible stomach upsets & feeling nauseous. 3 different meals, common denominator in each one was a jacket potato.

 

Wife's popped to Sainsbury's to get some Imodium. Ruined my afternoon, how my niece & her husband getting back to Manc are going to be with dodgy tums it's ruined their day too.

Sorry to hear this. You also need to (try and ) contact the local public health about a potential food hygiene problem. Some elderly and infirm may be more incapacitated.

[dozeydustman]

Sorry to hear this. You also need to (try and ) contact the local public health about a potential food hygiene problem. Some elderly and infirm may be more incapacitated.

 

 

 

They will be contacted. There is no fear of that.

 

EDIT Just found they have a 5/5 from the food standards agency.

[richardmorris]

Richard. You can get very good spray on antiseptic in pharmacys in France. Take some paracetemol for the swelling. I'd recommend always wearing insect repellant in France - get one with the pump spray not an aerosol one which spray most of the DEET into the air!

Thanks I have a good respect for French pharmacies.

Luckily as I was already on antihistamine piraton and had the cream with me ( as well as very mini first aid kit ) I seem to be ok. Ive never thought about fly spray before, but will certainly do so in future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t wish to get anyone at all excited about the photo to come. Indeed it would be the first time a shot of my leg got anyone excited!

 

 

 

 

 

This is the current state of the horse fly bite. When I noticed the thing sucking blood, it left a deep red mark about 5p sized. Plus the blood was running about 10cm down my leg. Bloody vampire flies!