The grumpy thread

[pandaselecta]

Time to have a moan - I am tired of people crossing the road in front of you, but thats okay because texters have right of way

[Claypole]

Friend who still works at my old place brought me a photo copy from the local newspaper Friday.

 

Was about an old manager who was a bit of a knob from the day he started, thought he was the business and was always trying to tell us (different department) what to do.

 

Anyway he disappeared after the 2nd to top boss saw him on cctv miss using his time and "body" while in his office...

 

As is usual at the company when anyone is thrown out, IT scamper along and take their pc/laptop away within seconds.

 

 

So according to the paper he was in court for "kiddie porn"...

 

Sick bastard.

[autofive]

Friend who still works at my old place brought me a photo copy from the local newspaper Friday.

 

Was about an old manager who was a bit of a knob from the day he started, thought he was the business and was always trying to tell us (different department) what to do.

 

Anyway he disappeared after the 2nd to top boss saw him on cctv miss using his time and "body" while in his office...

 

As is usual at the company when anyone is thrown out, IT scamper along and take their pc/laptop away within seconds.

 

 

So according to the paper he was in court for "kiddie porn"...

 

Sick bastard.

thats management for you - always odd, sometimes dangerous

[retrogeezer]

Dutch bloke asking more questions about the 635. He appears to think it's road legal even though the ad states that it isn't. Now he wants to know how to insure it so he can drive it to Holland.

 

Tried explaining twice that I could take it to Hull for him, but it wouldn't be cheap using an SD1 as a tow car, that it's a 400KM round trip, that I'd have to rent a trailer to do so and that he'd have to pay all my costs beforehand.

 

Arrgh.

Just block him from bidding Pete. You did put UK only in the listing too I take it?

[barrett]

If you'd like some Dutch profanities to throw at him, I can ask the missus

[Cavcraft]

Still have nightmares about exporting a damaged 4x4 to Iceland. It was an absolute pita from start to finish, mostly due to the same reasons you're experiencing Pete.

[Negative Creep]

The miserable twat on another department who told me "I'm off on lunch, I'll put you onto someone else" when I had a customer on the line. He then proceeded to send me to completely the wrong department. I'm not normally vindictive, but since I had to make excuses to cover his laziness I dually dobbed him in

[Station]

It sounded very rough yesterday when you started it, but I didn't like to comment..

Yeah, it's totally f*cked. Check the bottom end, the oil pickup pipe was half hanging off with one bolt half screwed in, and piston #1 conrod, etc was bone dry. Changed oil, got oil pressure back up, and started it again and the engine is definitely too knackered to do anything now.

Probably going to try and recoup my money by breaking it and selling the parts.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What rotten luck!

[Lord Sterling]

Appli-fucking-cation forms and tests

 

Had to go through hours of filling in forms and taking so-called online personality tests just to even try and get a sniff of a chance of getting a job interview at a local company.

 

I spent an hour filling out an application form due to thier online forms being almost impossible to fill in, and even though they already have my CV.

 

Another hour spent taking online aptitude tests. 3 of the tests were timed aswell. You had something like a 10 minutes to answer 50 questions.

 

Some of the questions went something like this:

 

254749274287246874967573. If more than five 7's are followed by 3, multiply 6 by 9; if less than 3, divide 35 by 5.

 

What is John Dewey famed for?

 

There were even worse questions than those but I really cant be arsed to think what they were right now.

 

Then yet another hour or so of taking a series of those American-based online personality tests, now apparently, out of the 50 questions you were not allowed to have more than 7 'middle' answers (As in not "unsure" type answers)

 

Tomorrow morning I've got to go to the company to take yet another test, which apparently takes 2 hours, if I pass, then I may have a chance for a job interview.

 

What ever happend to the good old days of - hand in CV - get called for an interview - go for a face-to-face interview with a human and get told you're either employed or not????

 

I'm not looking forward to this.

[trigger]

Just sitting in my local Co-op car park while waiting for Mrs. Trigger to get some eggs, I watched a Kia Sedona come in the car park's exit and park straight in the disabled bays outside the ALDI next door, Then two big fat lard arsed women woddle out of it over to the shop, Pisses me right off, No wonder they are so fat.

[Pillock]

Simply write a note reading "Hey lardy-bums, why not park a bit further away and then you might lose some weight walking?". For comedy value stick it high up in the middle of the windscreen where their bingo-winged arms and overstrained ankles won't let them reach it.

[pogweasel]

ITCHY BEARD.

It are driving me mad.

[Father Ted]

ITCHY BEARD.

It are driving me mad.

 

Unless of course you are hiding from the pigs.

[Minimad5]

crap Dave not good.

What are you going to use for transport now ?

[Mash]

WHY DO PEOPLE DRIVE SO FUCKING SLOWLY?

 

There's no need to lower the speed limit to 50 - they all drive at 45 already.

 

GET OUT OF MY WAY, I ONLY HAVE TWO DAYS TO DO ALL MY STUFF - YOU HAVE SEVEN YOU DOPEY TWAT.

[gearoil]

Still have nightmares about exporting a damaged 4x4 to Iceland. It was an absolute pita from start to finish, mostly due to the same reasons you're experiencing Pete.

Tell us more Billy... sounds like a tale full of woe.

[j-j]

WHY DO PEOPLE DRIVE SO FUCKING SLOWLY?

 

There's no need to lower the speed limit to 50 - they all drive at 45 already.

 

GET OUT OF MY WAY, I ONLY HAVE TWO DAYS TO DO ALL MY STUFF - YOU HAVE SEVEN YOU DOPEY TWAT.

Also people who take for foggin EVAH to get moving when the lights change. I make an effort to be ready to move off instantly as I'd watch the lights change several cars ahead - also the car in front but one: watch for their brake lights going off.

 

I't would make traffic flow so much better if these dozy giffers would wake up!

[Polystratus]

Appli-fucking-cation forms and tests

 

Had to go through hours of filling in forms and taking so-called online personality tests just to even try and get a sniff of a chance of getting a job interview at a local company.

 

 

Tomorrow morning I've got to go to the company to take yet another test, which apparently takes 2 hours, if I pass, then I may have a chance for a job interview.

 

What ever happend to the good old days of - hand in CV - get called for an interview - go for a face-to-face interview with a human and get told you're either employed or not????

 

I'm not looking forward to this.

'fraid you are being pissed around, more than likely that said vacancy doesn't exist or that someone is already working in that job, should know since I've been through the same crap myself - 50 maths questions involving advance equation solving and all to be in done in 5 mins, then I found out the company never had any vacancies at all, it was just BS to make it look like they had.

 

When you go all through this garbage, very often the company isnt worth working for in the end, I know someone who passed all the tests/interviews etc and got the job at the company - six months later he left due to a mental breakdown.

[Guest]

I R (technically) on Holiday!

 

....except I've watched that Quechua video 5 times now and I can't make my sodding tent do that when it comes to putting it away (sadly no sex involved, inside or outside the tent).

 

The last one I had snapped in half when I tried to do the figure of eight. I ain't Yo Yo Noritoke and I'm certainly not a nubile French bint, so I fear my 2 Seconds (Light) is DOOMED.

[Slaighty]

Drove down A38 from Lichfield yesterday, a dual carriageway, at 30 for about 5 or 6 miles.

One carriageway was being resurfaced, and there were cones between the lanes, but they had only done about the first mile, so for the rest of the distance there was literally nothing but the cones. As it was Sunday there was not a single "roadworks operative" about.

So why did I religiously stick to 30? 40 or even 50 would have been ok under the circumstances.

Because there are average speed cameras on that road, and no way was I going to risk it that they were set at 30.

What happened to common sense in the UK?

Is the rest of the world like this?

(I don't travel abroad)

[Station]

crap Dave not good.

What are you going to use for transport now ?

My legs I'm afraid! Might actually lose my gut that I've obtained through 14 years of sitting down as a job.

[Minimad5]

Could you not pick up a cheap cavalier or something similar, and steal it's engine ?

[Station]

It's a case of putting my turbo engine in after putting it back together again or (preferably) buying a V6 from a Cavalier on another forum. I'm selling everything in the garage after it's done, I've seriously had enough of cars.

 

It WENT on the same day I sold my other car! argh.

[Pete-M]

M6 Raceway this afternoon.

 

Took it this afternoon on the way back from Bristol to avoid the Brum traffic. So far the trip had been ok, but I was driving a Zafira CDTi which is not a good motorway car for someone with longish legs.

 

Done really well so far, hadn't had to stop once since leaving Brizzle, even the detour from the M5 up past Solihull to the M42 etc had been painless.

 

Then I got to the toll booth queue in the credit card lane.

 

There's this bloke in a Triumph Vitesse. Red one, Shiny but blatantly full of filler, drivers door not shut properly, smoking heavily and stinking of a rich mixture. Two cars in front of me approaching the lane. Car in front of me decides, wisely to change lane at the last minute and queue somewhere else.

 

I, foolishly, gave the Vitesse a chance. It's normally the scruffy ones that get used every day. They tend to be the reliable ones, and this didn't look like it had recently had half a hedge scrubbed off it. It looked like it would probably pass one more MOT before someone finally got around to restoring it properly.

 

So, I'm behind the Vitesse. I'm past the point of no return in regards to the traffic now meaning I can't reverse out or change my mind. I'm there until the Vitesse goes.

 

It stalls. Bastard. Lad driving it (probably 27ish) fiddled under the dash and with a plume of black unburnt fuel it starts again. He moves it forward two foot. Then gets out and looks for his wallet. Walks toward the barrier, puts his card in. Waits. Puts his card in the right way. Waits. Takes his card out. He begins to look nervous and sort of stutters "So Sorrr er fuck er " and begins looking for change and wandering off toward another booth. Patting his pockets he puts his credit card in his mouth and starts frantically searching the the credit card that is in his mouth. Eventually notices it, puts it in the machine and the barrier rises. He presses the 'receipt' button.

 

Nothing happens..

 

He walks back to the car, faffs about getting it to rev. Drives it forwards two feet. Gets back out. Walks to the machine again. Waits for his fucking receipt. Back to the car, adjusts seatbelt, stalls, churns the bloody thing over for 15 seconds or so and drives gingerly to the hard shoulder.

 

Happy days.

 

A while later I pull into Keele for a coffee (Vanilla latte, two sugars, £2.20, bargain) Drive back out and who's there, doing 54 mph along the M6? With about 20 trucks queueing up to pass? That bloody Vitesse.

 

So, Mr Vitesse. If you're reading this... You know who you are. You're a dozy fucker, and you're wasting about a quid a mile with that thing running that richly.

[Station]

^ That feels painfully familiar. I broke down in the Mersey tunnel in a shit Escort at 8.15am. :( I somehow managed to lascerate my hand badly on the choke lever through pure frustration.

[warren t claim]

14:40 and I have already been sent three Raoul Moat jokes via text. Non funny enough to post here though.

[sporty-shite]

WHY DO PEOPLE DRIVE SO FUCKING SLOWLY?

 

There's no need to lower the speed limit to 50 - they all drive at 45 already.

 

GET OUT OF MY WAY, I ONLY HAVE TWO DAYS TO DO ALL MY STUFF - YOU HAVE SEVEN YOU DOPEY TWAT.

I'm feeling this. Driving to work this morning, had got no ore than about quarter of a mile, and a Rover 25 pulls out in front of me. That pissed me off enough, considering there was no traffic behind me, he could have waited.

 

He then drove at 25 mph on exactly the same route as me for about three-quarters of my journey to work.

 

Cock-knocker.

[myglaren]

14:40 and I have already been sent three Raoul Moat jokes via text. Non funny enough to post here though.

Just been speaking to daughter #2. She lives a couple of hundred yards from the murder site, thought it was fireworks

I was informed that Birtley was cordoned off ( I work there and there has been a police helicopter flapping around).

She knew nothing about it but had tried to get to her sister-inlaw's in Rothbury and been shooed away.

 

Leaving work late on Friday she had got stuck in the traffic on the site of the shooting of the policeman.

 

They seem to be following one another around. I've told her to keep the Sig loaded and under the seat

[hennabm]

WHY DO PEOPLE DRIVE SO FUCKING SLOWLY?

 

There's no need to lower the speed limit to 50 - they all drive at 45 already.

 

GET OUT OF MY WAY, I ONLY HAVE TWO DAYS TO DO ALL MY STUFF - YOU HAVE SEVEN YOU DOPEY TWAT.

Also people who take for foggin EVAH to get moving when the lights change. I make an effort to be ready to move off instantly as I'd watch the lights change several cars ahead - also the car in front but one: watch for their brake lights going off.

 

I't would make traffic flow so much better if these dozy giffers would wake up!

+1

Had it today where I pulled up in lane 1 and a pisscasso in lane 2 - when the lights go to green I'm gone and lose sight of her before she seems to set off - WTF .

 

Also these 45mph giffers do that whether they are on a motorway or in town in a 30 zone, nothing seems to make them change speed.WTF WTF Lincolnshire seems to be the worst at this. The local constabulary seemed to have frightened the locals into thinking that if they go over 45 the human body will implode. Gets my goat right up it does when I have to drive through that arse of a county.

 

........and breathe - I feel better now