The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Sorry to hear that RY, we need some good news on here at mo

[mercrocker]

Echoing others, my sincere condolences to RantingYoof and his family.   A lifetime can suddenly seem so short a time.   

[Bren]

Yoof my thoughts are with you.

[dome]

Sorry to hear that RY

 

I went through the same when I lost my mother about 8 years ago. It's tough but with family and friends you'll get through it. 

 

I know what you're going through but look out for your Dad, mine has never truly got over losing my Mum. 

[rantingYoof]

It's very strange, but my dad's raw pain has had the effect of forcing my feelings into perspective.

 

I'm gonna hurt but it's clear right now who needs to be prioritised.

 

Anyway, I need to read a Reverend Bluejean eBay idiot rant to cheer me up.

 

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[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Drove to the local co-op with the Lanklets today, turned in to the narrow entrance for the car park just as a guy in a Range Rover tried to beat a Corsa out to the exit and nearly hit us head on. Annoying but there you go.

 

Nobody using the parent and child spaces had kids, none of the people using the disabled bays had disabled badges, despite most of the car park being empty, the spaces were just close to the door and they CBA walking. A few people even left their cars directly outside the doors to get even closer, half blocking the entrance, or parked on the road making getting in and out of the car park difficult. 

 

I know I shouldn't find any of this irritating, or surprising as it happens all the time pretty much everywhere but sometimes I do. Lazy inconsiderate bastards. 

 

 

Our shiny new train station has a billion disabled bays right by the entrance used daily by one car... Someone who works there. The car park for the abled are a fiver and a seventeen mile walk away which is a sod when the old hernia is playing up. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

All the best to you and your family, mate.

[Tamworthbay]

It's very strange, but my dad's raw pain has had the effect of forcing my feelings into perspective.

I'm gonna hurt but it's clear right now who needs to be prioritised.

Anyway, I need to read a Reverend Bluejean eBay idiot rant to cheer me up.

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Just take your time mate, it hits people in different ways. It’s been twenty this year since my Dad died and I still miss him. At the time I couldn’t understand why I didn’t seem to be very upset, then a couple of months later I was in Morrisons and saw a DVD and thought ‘I’ll get that for Dad for his birthday’ and it hit me like a bullet and I was in pieces for about a month. Everyone is different and there is no right or wrong just take your time and I hope it works out as best it can.

 

And can’t do an eBay rant but can do a Jewsons one, I want a few bits of wood and some plasterboard but I need to apply for an account before they will show me prices online. What a bunch of twats.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Lady Grumpius has a person at her work that used to continually double-park across half a disable space and half a 'normal' space.  Fortunately for Lady Grumpius, the car park has the disabled bays on the left.  So she used to park her passenger door right up to her driver's door until she stopped doing it...

[wrenchvolt]

Lady Grumpius has a person at her work that used to continually double-park across half a disable space and half a 'normal' space. 

Ugh, the wee cunt! GGWP Lady Grumpius.

[Tamworthbay]

Lady Grumpius has a person at her work that used to continually double-park across half a disable space and half a 'normal' space.  Fortunately for Lady Grumpius, the car park has the disabled bays on the left.  So she used to park her passenger door right up to her driver's door until she stopped doing it...

This is a hobby of mine with idiots in car parks in general where they think they can just block two spaces. It’s great fun watching from a distance.

[wrenchvolt]

Some numb nuts boxed my clio in with a very expensive Audi. Needless to say I wasn't too concerned about minor scuffs and blemishes to my paintwork.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

People used to give me a very wide berth when I took my old Ka around roundabouts...

[wrenchvolt]

Mini banger bulldozer

[Tamworthbay]

People used to give me a very wide berth when I took my old Ka around roundabouts...

strangely I could always find a space to join the motorway when I had my scruffy old Volvo 240 estate, it was like the parting of the Red Sea as soon as that indicator went on.

[wrenchvolt]

Only experienced that with one vehicle I Had a red (Oxidised pinkish really) Nissan Serena, looked like a post office van. Screamed the bollocks off it down the M3 through Winchester, down that big fuck off hill. Folk got well clear. Was propper bo I tell thee.

[MikeR]

Wasps .... Invading the house ..Wave your arms they attack u . wave a towel to get them out the door they ignore u .... One quick spray of killercide and they fly out the dam door ???

[Pillock]

Really sorry to hear of your loss RY.

 

I agree sometimes people just know. My mum passed away at the start of May, a week from going into hospital post-chemo feeling a bit unwell to getting "the" phone call from the hospital.

 

At 7am she made a series of phone calls to family, just checking in on people and having chat.

At 10.30am they tried and failed to resuscitate her.

 

As a nurse, she'd have never wanted to be a burden. I definitely think she knew it was her time and just went. I'm glad you got to make some memories in the final days.

[davehedgehog31]

Sorry to read your news RY. Thoughts with you, your old man and the rest of the family.

[eddyramrod]

RY, sorry about that.  Best wishes to you and your dad in coping.

[SierraMikeHotel]

RY I'm so sorry to hear this. Thinking of you, and your dad.

 

If an inconsequential grump will cheer you up, you may think of my painful and swollen thumb which was bitten by an especially dirty mosquito in the night.

 

I put some Anthisan cream on it earlier and I've just read the label which says to stop using it if you experience skin redness, swelling, itching, pain or a burning sensation. I am experiencing all of these things - that's why I put the fucking cream on in the first place!

[5speedracer]

Sad news RY. 5 weeks since my Mum left us, 94 so as for you hardly unexpected. Funny, in her last weekend she could eat for Scotland, practically licking the plates.

Last week I thought of something I'd have to check with her, need to get out of that habit!

 

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[fordperv]

RY my thoughts are with you and yours, a loved one passing is never easy, may your mum rest in peace

[Guest Hooli]

Most PSA stuff use a crush washer which is only good for one go.

 

Lots of people neglect to change the washer and always get a puddle for their efforts.

It's a crush washer on my bike too, but it doesn't seem to care.

 

Update on my breakdown grump. The Italian office of AXA breakdown are fucking useless cunts. The UK office is brilliant though and seem as annoyed by it as me. It's taken all day for them to get the Italian cunts to authorise my bike being bought to the nearest suzuki dealer! It should have been here, inspected, parts ordered etc by now. That's another day of my trip wasted

[GrumpiusMaximus]

More house shite fun!

 

Saturday morning.  Lady Grumpius wakes up:

 

'What's that mark on the ceiling?'

 

'Oh fuck, the roof has leaked overnight!'

 

I go up into the loft and have a look.  The insulation is sodden where the leak is and there's a roof vent tile with a black flexi hanging down, not connected to anything and a big bore grey pipe that appears to be coming up the cavity wall, not attached to anything.  I'm bloody careful in stepping on joists, etc. and the pipe is damp on the inside but not overly so.  Go next door, have a chat and look in their loft and it doesn't seem like they have the same arrangement.

 

Call up the 'Emergency' line for our developers and they refuse to send anyone out.  I mean, it's not like a potential roof leak in the middle of a week with heavy rain predicted is exactly important, is it? Find out that they're not even our developers, they're just another third-party contractor who've obviously been told not to spend any money.  Even though our contract clearly states they are supposed to.  Cue complaints procedure, etc.

 

Lady Grumpius grabs a painter (who was very nice and the only person on the site behind our house) to have a look and he thinks it's a relief condensation pipe for the cavity wall.  Fair enough. Not sure enough to say it's definitely the pipe, because it could still be the roof at this point.

 

Go out, come back.  Put a plastic box under the grey pipe and come to the conclusion that the flexi and the grey are meant to be connected to the roof vent and just haven't been.  For some reason.  Now, my house is under warranty and I'm not going to go spending money for the right lagging, etc. to do the job.  They do fit together perfectly as my 'water Lego' skills prove.

 

Come to today.  We get a call from a roofer who comes from a job in Swanley (an hour away) that the developer has called to have a look.  He's a nice chap and checks our roof very thoroughly (which I'm very grateful for anyway) and concludes what we thought.  Fucking water Lego morons not doing their job properly.  Again.

 

Now we're sitting in again, waiting for another water Lego womble to visit, confess that once again one of his colleagues has fucked up (last time, they forgot to connect the bath overflow) and remediate the issue.

 

Sloppy workmanship.  Just don't get it.

[dozeydustman]

Sorry for your loss RantingYoof, always horrible to lose a loved one, it must be some consolation that her final memory was an enjoyable Friday evening.

 

Morrison's supermarket is my latest grump. Thought we'd try them (again). How the hell can 3 small bags of shopping come to £60, which in the other supermarkets comes to around £40?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Try going to Sainsburys, its £90 there (£30 per bag of shopping)

[Pillock]

I can do a weekly shop in Sainsbury's for £80, four people. It helps that most of their basic stuff is pretty decent so our trolley is awash with cut price stuff.

[Snipes]

More house shite fun!

 

Saturday morning. Lady Grumpius wakes up:

 

'What's that mark on the ceiling?'

 

'Oh fuck, the roof has leaked overnight!'

 

I go up into the loft and have a look. The insulation is sodden where the leak is and there's a roof vent tile with a black flexi hanging down, not connected to anything and a big bore grey pipe that appears to be coming up the cavity wall, not attached to anything. I'm bloody careful in stepping on joists, etc. and the pipe is damp on the inside but not overly so. Go next door, have a chat and look in their loft and it doesn't seem like they have the same arrangement.

 

Call up the 'Emergency' line for our developers and they refuse to send anyone out. I mean, it's not like a potential roof leak in the middle of a week with heavy rain predicted is exactly important, is it? Find out that they're not even our developers, they're just another third-party contractor who've obviously been told not to spend any money. Even though our contract clearly states they are supposed to. Cue complaints procedure, etc.

 

Lady Grumpius grabs a painter (who was very nice and the only person on the site behind our house) to have a look and he thinks it's a relief condensation pipe for the cavity wall. Fair enough. Not sure enough to say it's definitely the pipe, because it could still be the roof at this point.

 

Go out, come back. Put a plastic box under the grey pipe and come to the conclusion that the flexi and the grey are meant to be connected to the roof vent and just haven't been. For some reason. Now, my house is under warranty and I'm not going to go spending money for the right lagging, etc. to do the job. They do fit together perfectly as my 'water Lego' skills prove.

 

Come to today. We get a call from a roofer who comes from a job in Swanley (an hour away) that the developer has called to have a look. He's a nice chap and checks our roof very thoroughly (which I'm very grateful for anyway) and concludes what we thought. Fucking water Lego morons not doing their job properly. Again.

 

Now we're sitting in again, waiting for another water Lego womble to visit, confess that once again one of his colleagues has fucked up (last time, they forgot to connect the bath overflow) and remediate the issue.

 

Sloppy workmanship. Just don't get it.

Probably guys working on price in a huge rush. I hate price guys; they're always total pricks.

[sierraman]

You’ve got to bear in mind the roofer will know how to do the job right, he’ll be under absolutely ridiculous time constraints and expected to do the job for less than cost effectively. That’s why these new builds are a lash up usually. Max profit for the guys at the top.

 

How many brickes, roofers and dry liners do you see living in new builds?