The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

It’s never done that I swear down... Bullshit. Is that the beaver tail I can hear coming up the road from car take back?

[Cavcraft]

Yes that is the one, I think you are right. When I asked why there was so much nastiness and I was told "that is what Facebook is for" when I questioned this and asked for evidence of this fact he called me gay, I gave up then, there is a higher level of maturity in the local sperm bank. On top of it all it turns out the guy purchasing the Megane was even planning on purchasing it and was trying to make some kind of point, so that is the last time I try and stick up for someone on there! I think I will be leaving some of these groups. 

 

It never ceased to amaze me how a handful of the 'it's in the public eye, I can say what I like' knobheads got very upset when the tables were turned.

[cobblers]

I bought a cheap shed off the internet, I was expecting it to be total dogshit and it really is.

It's amazing really, the walls are so thin that THE WOOD IS BLOODY TRANSLUCENT. You can see through it!

 

Also some complete dickhead decided that a 25mm square bit of softwood is deffo enough to support a roof on an 8 foot span.

FFS, a tanelised 3x2 is about £3, how much can they really have saved?

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

All the arseholes were on the road today.

 

i) At Lakeside (via mega traffic leading to the tunnel, etc.) coming around the roundabout to get to Hell Ikea, in my lane and a car tries to pull out on me.  Gives me a blast of the horn and some choice gestures, including one that made it look like I should have given way because I was out of my lane.  I was simply following my lane and I've driven that roundabout dozens of times.  Fortunately this mouth-breathing simpleton tried to park as close to Ikea as possible - which I'm sure took him longer than me.  I parked at the far end of the car park, got a space straight away and walked right in...

 

ii)  Crossways, Greenhithe.  I'm going straight ahead having come right off the Dartford Bridge and I'm in the correct (middle) lane at the roundabout.  Fortunately I'm rather aware of the fucking enormous HGV who comes up from behind me and tries to cut me up to get into the single lane.  Then another one does it about 8 feet further on - who very nearly smashes into the side of my car, driving like he hasn't even seen me, despite the fact that I was in front of him until he cut me off.  If I'd been three feet further forward, fuck knows how hard the impact would have been...  So two HGVs cut me up on the same awkward bit of road within five seconds of each other.

 

iii) On the A2 just East of Canterbury.  Semi-hidden slip road joining the carriageway and I get a hint of some headlights (bear in mind awful spray, poor visibility) so I check the outer lane, indicate clearly, see a car in the distance (but well within safety with legal driving) and the guy is doing about 110.  There's plenty of time for him to see me indicate, so I pull out carefully to allow the car joining to merge.  For context, I'm doing exactly 70*.  Once again, choice hand signals, and full beam from the bloke behind who is now located right on my backside, having accelerated even more - who clearly doesn't understand that you don't overtake somebody on a dual carriageway when there's a merging lane and secondly, that you don't exactly have the moral high ground in any situation when you're doing 110.  It's not like I pulled out on him suddenly.

 

He also felt the need to pull right in front of me afterwards and spray me with the fishtails.  Thought he might try brake-checking but even he wasn't that stupid.  The funniest part to me is that my car is theoretically much, much faster than what he was driving so who the fuck knows what the noise was like in there for him...

 

Everyday things, I know.  But bad weather on the road brings out all the arseholes.

[Saabnut]

Todays grump? Fleure Telecom

 

I signed up with AOL when dead slow broadband became available here. Good service for many years, had 4 or 5 routers die over 10-15 years but new one always sent straight away..

 

They were taken over by talktalk - almost immediately the router fails, good service, new one arrived in a couple of days, amusingly with the old aol logo on it.

 

About 2-3 years ago, I am informed Fleure telecom have taken over my account, as talktalk cannot be arsed with non fibre users in the middle of nowhere. No changes to service or prices.

 

On  Friday, my broadband stopped working. Not a problem as I also have satellite BB (fixed line about 0.2 - 0.5 Mb so I also have sat BB at 20Mb). It stopped after the thunderstorms and several brief (10-20 secs) power cuts. Tried rebooting several times, but to no avail so today phoned Fleure. They tested from their end and said my router has failed, and a new one will be 40 quid please! After much debate the operator agreed with me that it should be replaced, but their company policy was it had to be at my cost is over 12 months old. Three times I asked to speak to a manager, twice they returned to say the manager was saying the same, the third time they agreed to ring me back.

 

After 20 minutes, they did phone back to say 40 quid please! They agreed my old contract with AOL and TalkTalk included the router, but theirs did not. If I wanted to sign a new contract, they would send one to me. Bastards! I immediately cancelled my agreement (and went online to my bank to cancel the DD) and have now signed up to a new package with BT which gets me a free router and as a bonus will save me about 30 quid a month for 18 months.

 

So, for the sake of 40 quid they have lost a customer of 25 years standing paying 27 quid a month!

[robinmasters]

Two grumps in one. I failed to put two and two together (#1), and realise that normal 'intelligent' battery chargers are the same as car ones, ie. they think completely flat batteries are fucked, so won't charge them (#2).

[cobblers]

put a good battery in parallel with the shit one to give the "smart" charger some voltage to get it going, maybe leave it ten minutes.

[nebuchenezer]

Dave of many French numbers

 

Gutted

[Wack]

Just been to see the latest Mission Improbable , what a load of bollocks , though I am ashamed to say I'm only 18 months older than Tom Cruise, he has the physique of a man in his early 40s and I look like Selwyn Froggitt with more hair

 

[Wack]

I was a member of a locally-based BMW group on Facebook until recently.

 

They were precisely what you'd expect. Useless for actually sourcing any meaningful parts, and they all drove barried / stanced 2.0 diesels. I left about 30 seconds after somebody outright called my car a "piece of shit" with no provocation. How very dare I actually enjoy owning and driving a 2.0 straight 6 automatic! I should be striving to own a 328i manual that's been crashed into a wall backwards several times and jigged back into a shape roughly resembling a car.

 

 

wind them up, ask a question, then open another account, answer it wrong then argue your point until their heads explode

[adw1977]

I bought a cheap shed off the internet, I was expecting it to be total dogshit and it really is.

It's amazing really, the walls are so thin that THE WOOD IS BLOODY TRANSLUCENT. You can see through it!

 

I'm sure it will be fine, as long as you don't attach anything to the walls. Or lean anything against the walls.

Or sneeze in it.

[Timewaster]

A cheap shed should be seen as a starting point.

A few batons, a bit of ply lining, another couple of layers of felt, a bag or two of screws... Could be made into something decent.

 

I found a big shelf bracket screwed into each corner straightens up and strengthens a tired shed without too much effort.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just been to see the latest Mission Improbable , what a load of bollocks , though I am ashamed to say I'm only 18 months older than Tom Cruise, he has the physique of a man in his early 40s and I look like Selwyn Froggitt with more hair

 

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Does that mean you covet Tom Cruise's body?   

[Wack]

One like it , not that particular one but it'll never happen , my hands and mouth are too close together

[Guest Hooli]

Tom thumb's body would be no use to you, he can't reach the pedals or see over the wheel of a full sized car.

[Guest Hooli]

Talking of shit drivers, I'm bloody sure I go past the local 'formation fuckwitting' team practicing most days, there is no other excuse for how utterly incapable of using a road they are.

[Bren]

Had the squits a couple of weeks ago followed by abdominal pain. Now I have pain in my back and behind my sternum - swallowing is painful. I am hardly eating anything. Seeing a GP tomorrow - for the first time in my life I am fearful of seeing a doctor.

[Datsuncog]

Had the squits a couple of weeks ago followed by abdominal pain. Now I have pain in my back and behind my sternum - swallowing is painful. I am hardly eating anything. Seeing a GP tomorrow - for the first time in my life I am fearful of seeing a doctor.

 

Yeep. That doesn't sound fun; you've done the right thing by getting yourself a GP appointment but if the pain gets worse do get yourself off to A&E pronto, rather than wait until tomorrow.

 

Hope all goes well, dude. Keep us in the loop; with last night's bombshell we don't want to be losing anyone else, yeah?

[New POD]

I just typed an essay about shit that's going on before realising that i need to man up and grow a pair and start behaving like the man i would like to be.

that's all i have.

[jakebullet]

Had a session in the shed, one of those where I become Mr. Bean. Nothing goes right and improbable injuries occur. I'm trying to make & fit brake pipe.

 

First job, easy, remove 4 way connector and replace with 3 way. Wrong. Nut holding it on isn't 10mm, 3/8", 11mm or 7/16". It's about 10.6mm, and I can't get to it with a mover or molegrips. Got one of those bruise / graze combos on my arm trying. Ended up destroying it with air tools to get it off.

 

Bracket doesn't look too clever now, tickle with the welder will sort it. Welding hot. Thumb burnt.

 

Flared one end of the pipe and threaded it thru. Cut where the other end needs to be, went to flare it and the end I've already flared somehow hooks a 5 litre plastic bottle off the shelf which shatters on the floor and gets me on the leg. Bottle was half full of dilute acid I use for derusting. Hmmm, things are getting a bit warm for some reason. Best go sit under the garden tap.

 

I can take a hint, locked the doors, took a chunk out of my finger in the lock. Bastard thing.

[SiC]

Had a session in the shed, one of those where I become Mr. Bean. Nothing goes right and improbable injuries occur. I'm trying to make & fit brake pipe.

 

First job, easy, remove 4 way connector and replace with 3 way. Wrong. Nut holding it on isn't 10mm, 3/8", 11mm or 7/16". It's about 10.6mm, and I can't get to it with a mover or molegrips. Got one of those bruise / graze combos on my arm trying. Ended up destroying it with air tools to get it off.

 

Bracket doesn't look too clever now, tickle with the welder will sort it. Welding hot. Thumb burnt.

 

Flared one end of the pipe and threaded it thru. Cut where the other end needs to be, went to flare it and the end I've already flared somehow hooks a 5 litre plastic bottle off the shelf which shatters on the floor and gets me on the leg. Bottle was half full of dilute acid I use for derusting. Hmmm, things are getting a bit warm for some reason. Best go sit under the garden tap.

 

I can take a hint, locked the doors, took a chunk out of my finger in the lock. Bastard thing.

I have those days sometimes a lot of the time.

[dollywobbler]

I have those days sometimes a lot of the time.

 

The greatest luxury of having a garage is being able to realise that it's one of 'those' days, and just dropping tools and getting out of there. It just about avoids the rage/pain/flying tools incidents that are forced upon you when you're working outside, and can't just walk away from the job.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Her family.

 

I can't even be arsed to elaborate.

 

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[davehedgehog31]

Her family.

 

I can't even be arsed to elaborate.

 

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+1

[Isaac Hunt]

A cheap shed should be seen as a starting point.

A few batons, a bit of ply lining, another couple of layers of felt, a bag or two of screws... Could be made into something decent.

I found a big shelf bracket screwed into each corner straightens up and strengthens a tired shed without too much effort.

Many years ago I asked my Dad to build me a 6x4 Shed. Now my Dad had served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker so he was more than handy with wood. He explained to me that the shed was built but wood was expensive and he was sorry that it had cost all most as much in materials as the cheap shed would have cost. But my oh my was it well built, lined under the feather edge, ply braced on the corner joints, it was the work of a craftsman. That was nearly 30 years ago and the shed is as good today as the day it was made.

[mrbenn]

I just typed an essay about shit that's going on before realising that i need to man up and grow a pair and start behaving like the man i would like to be.

that's all i have.

 

Nowt wrong with having a vent now and again. Carry on!

[Rod/b]

This.

[New POD]

Nowt wrong with having a vent now and again. Carry on!

Wife had mammogram.

wife had letter.

Wife eventually went for more tests

wife had 4 biopsies and they left a metal marker inside her.

Wife is waiting for results. it is a long wait.

New POD is like a rabbit in the head lights. Doing and saying the wrong things.

Somehow we had row.

I feel like shit

But i have made her feel totally alone.

i have paid 12 quid into a roffle for a jag. without telling her

ice on cake ???

[New POD]

Oh and last week i had road rage whilst cycling. I think i may have needed to vent. I want to scream.

[Coprolalia]

Wife had mammogram.

wife had letter.

Wife eventually went for more tests

wife had 4 biopsies and they left a metal marker inside her.

Wife is waiting for results. it is a long wait.

New POD is like a rabbit in the head lights. Doing and saying the wrong things.

Somehow we had row.

I feel like shit

But i have made her feel totally alone.

i have paid 12 quid into a roffle for a jag. without telling her

ice on cake ???

You're scared for her, she's plain scared, neither want to admit it because it makes it real, the contained stress comes out as snappiness?