The grumpy thread

[mrbenn]

My bathroom smells of weed.

Neighbours flushing something away?!

[Simonsays]

Whilst feeling slightly nauseated by the smell of my complimentary air freshener

 

'smells like apples guv'

 

Smells like a cider drinkers puke more like

 

My thoughts turned to the Feu Orange air fresheners that my dad always had in his cars. The ones supplied with a pin to pierce the back and let the liquid soak into the sponge layer.

 

I realised that I hadn't seen one in an age and came over all whistful and nostalgic.

 

So I had a look on ebay.

 

Jebus.

 

Fifteen quid!

 

They're 'retro' and seem to have attracted a scene tax all of their very own.

 

 

 

 

 

I bought one. That goes without saying.

[somewhatfoolish]

But does it smell the same?

[chodweaver]

For months after moving into my current house, I was convinced my neighbours were always outside their back door, just the other side of the fence, hidden from view, smoking weed.

 

Then I found out it was my own loft, which two owners previous had fitted out as a grow room, that still stank of weed and the stink wafted out from under the eaves every time I opened an outside door.

 

 

 

 

AND my neighbours regularly smoked weed in their garden.

 

AND my neighbours two doors up on the other side were* weed dealers.

 

*Allegedly.**

 

 

 

**Not allegedly. I know they are.

[pandamonium]

 

 

 

 

Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

[Simonsays]

But does it smell the same?

I'll update you when it arrives.

 

Hope I don't suffer from buyers remorse!

[sierraman]

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Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

[PhilA]

Stopped at the grocery store yesterday, walking on the way in there's a lady in a pickup truck, twist key rakrakrakrak, dead battery. Grab the two items I needed and walking back out see nobody else has helped so walk over and ask if she needs a jump start. She thanks me and says yes, was about to call someone but they're in Golden Meadow (about 15 miles away).

Go get the car, pull up in front and go grab the little bag of tools I keep in the back of the car. Remove the jump leads, undo the wire tie that's holding them wrapped up because I've never used them before.

Connect up and nothing. Wiggle connections a bit to clear corrosion off the terminals, nothing. Wiggle a bit more and the wire falls off one of the red terminals.

Do what now? Check the rest and they all bloody well fall off, the wires all turned to grayish powder.

Borrow a pen knife off the lady, strip the insulation back until I find moderately decent metal, clip the wires to the terminals with the clamps using them like clothes pegs and away she goes.

 

What the hell is wrong with stuff these days? I understand that in order to make things cheap, China is turned to (they were stamped made in China) but in order for China to make it cheap corners gotta be cut somewhere. Seems in this case it was in materials.

My old man has a set of jump leads from the sixties, made in the UK, they've been stored in the same, if not worse conditions since he bought them and despite being dirty they still work fine and show no signs of deterioration. These leads are only five years old. That and the amount of metal inside the big rubber outside makes it look like you're trying to start a car with spark plug wires.

There's a problem with that, new cars need more reliable electricity than old ones with all the electronic jazz that gets switched on when you flip the key to IGN. How that gets through microscopic modern jump leads I'll never know.

 

Ugh

[PhilA]

Ours too. Next door looks like the sort but says it might be his Yankee candle obsession.

I did not know they did one in Burning Hemp

My guess is that it comes via the cavity walls because the bathroom is the only place we get it.

And as far as I'm concerned that why it's still illegal because if you're inconsiderate enough that you want to get high in public then at least find a method that doesn't reek.

 

I bet the same people would complain bitterly about a fart in an elevator though.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

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Just trying to sell a scrap car ... The last person kept trying to offer £100 even though I told him the scrap man had offered £160.

 

 

This is Gaynor Whittle. Spot the brain cell.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Having to drive the relatives to Lakeside Thurrock. Can't think of a worse place to be trapped for an entire afternoon.

 

I should be at home, putting the new battery into the CX and giving it a run, but no....

[SiC]

Bought a welding curtain. Assembled said curtain. Bought some actual steel from b&q (I know I know). Get home. Start setting everything up to actually start practicing welding this year.

 

 

It's now raining. FFS.

[mercrocker]

This is Gaynor Whittle. Spot the brain cell.

  

Sorry, I've looked....and looked....Still can't see one.

[SiC]

This is Gaynor Whittle. Spot the brain cell.

I think that's actually a mole. Makeup is hiding it a bit.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

MOTIVATION. I need some if anyone has some going spare. Living with my 635 has been like having a second marriage, a bad one. The good times were great but few and far between and the bad times are depressing. When I had my unit it was a doddle to spend time on fixing stuff but now it's in the street and has been for a while with stuffed brakes. I bought new shit to go on it and fitted some stuff but I have no bloody time these days. What's more, a leak in the screen made me take out the seat to see what needed to be done and of course it has developed more rot in the sill. So now it needs welding and brakes and I just can't be arsed with it anymore. I don't even know if the brake fix will work as it was a strange issue, totally un googleable.

Shiny parts are a sod to get and it needs 2 tyres. I think I'm at the end of the road with it. I really am thinking of outing it just to see it gone, but this is the car I'd never thought I'd sell. 

 

You can clearly see I need help here.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

MOTIVATION. I need some if anyone has some going spare. Living with my 635 has been like having a second marriage, a bad one. ....

I only sold mine because the MoT fail list in 2014 was longer than my arm. Still it was a pleasant 18 years having it.

 

Of course, now that I don't have it anymore, the values have gone up.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

This doesn't have a fail list... Yet. The last few have been clear. It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on to it at the moment 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

This doesn't have a fail list... Yet. The last few have been clear. It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on to it at the moment

They can go suddenly.

 

I had years of clear MoTs, but the dream ended that fateful year.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Well, it's had it's long list already about 6 years ago. It was all pretty much done then and nonsignificant bits done over the last few years. Its the silly bits that go, and no-one in the world has had it happen to theirs... it's an unthankful piece of shit. 

[richardmorris]

I’ve just had to sign as witness for my next door neighbour a document stating that she is giving her father permission to take her son, his grandson, on a flight to Edinburgh tonight to go to the festival. That he is basically not being kidnapped and sold into slavery ( in Scotland anyway).

Apparently children being accompanied by adults with different surnames are being targeted for questioning. What’s the world coming to?

[Tamworthbay]

I’ve just had to sign as witness for my next door neighbour a document stating that she is giving her father permission to take her son, his grandson, on a flight to Edinburgh tonight to go to the festival. That he is basically not being kidnapped and sold into slavery ( in Scotland anyway).

Apparently children being accompanied by adults with different surnames are being targeted for questioning. What’s the world coming to?

It’s a safeguard to prevent kidnapping, child trafficking etc. We had to sign a form for our daughter to go overseas on a school trip to say the staff involved have permission. Makes perfect sense to me.

[richardmorris]

It’s a safeguard to prevent kidnapping, child trafficking etc. We had to sign a form for our daughter to go overseas on a school trip to say the staff involved have permission. Makes perfect sense to me.

Yes, but for grandparents? I think the world is in a very sad state of affairs that this is even thought of. I know the school won’t let me pick up my nieces unless my sister has told them in advance. Two girls shouting “uncle Richard” and I could be anybody!

On the other hand I have read of children from multi country parents being taken abroad which is obviously bad.

 

I’m just grumpy in general today!

[myglaren]

I’ve just had to sign as witness for my next door neighbour a document stating that she is giving her father permission to take her son, his grandson, on a flight to Edinburgh tonight to go to the festival. That he is basically not being kidnapped and sold into slavery ( in Scotland anyway).

Apparently children being accompanied by adults with different surnames are being targeted for questioning. What’s the world coming to?

My daughter was grilled mercilessly by the Yank immigration people when she went with her son.

 

He had been all over the world with her including three previous trips to the US.

This time it was because there was no letter from the boy's father - not unusual as he had only recently been identified - she thought it was someone else.

The boy was left alone and crying as he had no idea what was going on - he was five at the time.

 

The irony was that she was there to marry an American and had all the support documents to prove it.

They just stuck her back on the next flight to the UK.

[Tamworthbay]

Yes, but for grandparents? I think the world is in a very sad state of affairs that this is even thought of. I know the school won’t let me pick up my nieces unless my sister has told them in advance. Two girls shouting “uncle Richard” and I could be anybody!

On the other hand I have read of children from multi country parents being taken abroad which is obviously bad.

I’m just grumpy in general today!

But how do the authorities know they are Grandparents? Random old geezer turns up at Heathrow with a child, they could be good old grandpa or evil peado trafficker. I agree it’s a sad state of affairs but I am glad that such protections exist. The minor inconvenience is a small price to pay for the safety factor. I may be biased though as I sadly spend a great deal of my time dealing with the victims of abuse so am particularly aware of the risks.

[richardmorris]

But how do the authorities know they are Grandparents? Random old geezer turns up at Heathrow with a child, they good be good old grandpa or evil peado trafficker. I agree it’s a sad state of affairs but I am glad that such protections exist. The minor inconvenience is a small price to pay for the safety factor. I may be biased though as I sadly spend a great deal of my time dealing with the victims of abuse so am particularly aware of the risks.

I’m sorry you have to deal with things like that. It can’t be easy.

 

I’m just angry it’s necessary because there are people about that would make it needed.

[chaseracer]

This is nothing new.  

 

When Musical Offspring was about 8 or 9, he went to Paris for a week with Domestic Management's elder sister - and a detailed permission letter signed by both of us.

[Tamworthbay]

I’m sorry you have to deal with things like that. It can’t be easy.

I’m just angry it’s necessary because there are people about that would make it needed.

You and me both, it makes you much more angry when you see someone totally fucked up and suicidal years after the event when the perpetrator got a slap on the wrist and a few months later carried on as though nothing happened. As anyone who knows me will attest and I am against violence in almost every single case in the world, I make an exception for paedophiles.

[richardmorris]

This is nothing new.  

 

When Musical Offspring was about 8 or 9, he went to Paris for a week with Domestic Management's elder sister - and a detailed permission letter signed by both of us.

New to me ( no children )- my school trips had nothing signed as far as I know.

 

Just after my parents were married they went on a school trip to Switzerland ( my dad’s school and in 1967)- they lost a child! Not for long, well just a few hours, and he was the one the staff had labelled as most likely to cause trouble. He got on the wrong train!

 

Again, I’m just sad that it’s necessary ( or thought so).

 

Other grump today is that one of my customer’s had a bit of an explosion yesterday and killed some staff. I don’t think it’s anyone I’ve met though. Chemical industry in the uk is generally very health and safety conscious these days and I’m sure there will be a thorough investigation.

[BavarianRetro]

I’ve just had to sign as witness for my next door neighbour a document stating that she is giving her father permission to take her son, his grandson, on a flight to Edinburgh tonight to go to the festival. That he is basically not being kidnapped and sold into slavery ( in Scotland anyway).

Apparently children being accompanied by adults with different surnames are being targeted for questioning. What’s the world coming to?

We took our granddaughters to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to visit their father. Each time we needed the written authority of a parent.

[Cavcraft]

I’ve just had to sign as witness for my next door neighbour a document stating that she is giving her father permission to take her son, his grandson, on a flight to Edinburgh tonight to go to the festival. That he is basically not being kidnapped and sold into slavery ( in Scotland anyway).

Apparently children being accompanied by adults with different surnames are being targeted for questioning. What’s the world coming to?

 

So kids with parents with different surnames have to get permission to move round? That's about 98% of the women on my estate fucked then.

 

 

 

 

Anyway, don't really know what people are moaning about, tbh. My dog just ate my entire blu ray collection of James Bond films. Luckily I manged to beat The Living Daylights out of him.