The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

Hangovers definitely get harder as you get older. It 6:45 pm and still feel rough.

There be science about that https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/hangovers-now-include-terrifying-existential-dread-discover-over-35s-20160608109398

[New POD]

Or perhaps just not making racist or homophobic comments in the first place.

I don't know. Certain members of the Royal family seems to get away with it all the time. Just change Hooli's user name to Prince Philip or Alf Garnett and let him be as Homophobic and Rascist as he thinks fit.

[New POD]

As they were lifting him into the ambulance...yes of course i saw him

Ahh. Makes my joke look particularly bad.

 

Hope the poor fella lives long enough to be able to go into schools and tell kids about his own stupidity.

[New POD]

my grump is that i keep upsetting my wife.

I know she's highly strung but The outpouring of anger and emotion yesterday because of something trivial. And the fact that she went off in the pissing down rain to stay with her sister (MikeRs wife) in their caravan somewhere in Yorkshire just leaves it all in limbo.

The biggest grump is that she won't let me put my side of any situation.

 

The fact is that i need to lose weight. I am also very greedy. I cooked us all a nice fry up yesterday as it was a horrid day and when i started eating she started going on. I explained that this week I'd lost some weight (15:6 down to 15:1). but she started going on about me lying. So i got up, put my breakfast in the bin started putting my jogging clothes on and said no you are right. i need to do something. Bang shit hits THE fan.

[Jazoli]

That's women for you they are just utterly unreasonable for no reason and won't listen, give her a taste of her own medicine and tell her to fuck off, don't play their games and just get on as usual, if they don't come round after a while it's maybe time for an ex wife, life is too short to be stuck in a relationship where you feel you can't do anything right and they are constantly on your case.

[iainrcz]

My Mrs is highly strung. 15 years ago I might have cared. Now I just ignore the dramatic old twat.

 

I mean I actually ignore her, as in carry blithely on with what I'm doing as if she doesn't exist.

 

She can go conduct her arguement with someone who gives a toss.

 

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[Frogchod]

My Mrs is highly strung. 15 years ago I might have cared. Now I just ignore the dramatic old twat.

I mean I actually ignore her, as in carry blithely on with what I'm doing as if she doesn't exist.

She can go conduct her arguement with someone who gives a toss.

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Are you me ?

[iainrcz]

Are you also in the "don't argue with me I don't fucking care" club?

Are you me ?

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[3VOM]

Back to cars. Ordered some brake discs for a car a few weeks back. Put number plate in so as to make sure they are the correct part for the car. Go to fit them yesterday and, of course, they are wrong. Go back to same company website and oh look the part number has changed and the new picture looks like the one that will fit my car.

[meggersdog]

Do testers have access to the MOT history when they log a car in? It's a brave move to pass something borderline that another tester has already failed.

 

The only thing that flags up is the expiry date.I checked the history as I hadn't seen the car for two years and wondered where he went last year.I advised the brakepipe two years ago then last year he goes elsewhere and they advised it should be replaced.This year I fail the rusty pipe so he goes to another station.

[purplebargeken]

I am stunningly anaemic. I feel totally fucking knackered all of the time, now I have a headache and feel queasy. Great.

[dozeydustman]

I am stunningly anaemic. I feel totally fucking knackered all of the time, now I have a headache and feel queasy. Great.

 

My late grandpa had pernicious anaemia, when his dementia started getting worse one of the family had to make sure his meals were well balanced between his B12 injections. Might be worth decreasing your caffeine and dairy for a short while, at the same time increasing protein, iron and vitamin C, so lean meat, green vegetables and fruit.

[ruffgeezer]

I have got nothing done this weekend. I have done nothing to the Datsun for months. I'm unlikely to do anything other than the essentials to the van.

 

My latest plan is just to sell everytuing.

[brandersnatch]

I am exceedingly hungover, even at this late hour. Walking to the local shop and back I had to have a sit down as I thought I was going to pass out.

 

I really must stop getting so trousered of a weekend.

Liked for your dedication to the art of getting slaughtered of a bank holiday. Well done!

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[Rod/b]

Fucking iPhones. Have set up new phone off the cloud backup, and now i have to plug it into the computer to sync rhe music anyway. ARSE.

[busmansholiday]

I am exceedingly hungover, even at this late hour. Walking to the local shop and back I had to have a sit down as I thought I was going to pass out.

 

I really must stop getting so trousered of a weekend.

We had a family drinking session yesterday, nine of us. One person staggered out of the pub and fell into the road, narrowly missing a car. This morning, the 'athlete' in the group was the only one who had a stinging hangover and couldn't get up. Lightweight, and I like your style!

[gm]

I "spent" yesterday up at Knockhill watching the touring cars - why a grump ? What a bloody rip off everything is

 

£35 admission (I should have just turned round and come home at that point)

£5 souvenir programme (no, I didn't)

£6 burger

£3 chips

£3 coffee

=

£taking the piss

 

And as it was pissing down most of the afternoon, the racing wasn't much cop either, the safety car was out for at least half of the races. I gave up and came home before the last race so at least I wasn't stuck in masses of traffic.

 

What a shame, I've been in previous years when the sun shone and had a great time.

[gm]

Did see these though

 

 

 

Sounded great

[DodgeRover]

Fucking iPhones. Have set up new phone off the cloud backup, and now i have to plug it into the computer to sync rhe music anyway. ARSE.

I slung mine today (again) as it randomly went onto voice activated and started calling people whilst in my pocket (again) useless piece of shit.

Looking at tough android phones later.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

There's been a leak....

 

 

Thankfully it's not LHM, 'cos not green. Doesn't seem to be engine oil, because level seems constant. That just leaves transmission fluid....

[Guest Hooli]

Wasn't it yours drinking transmission fluid recently? That'd explain it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Wasn't it yours drinking transmission fluid recently? That'd explain it.

Yup. Feck. I'm going to try to book it into FCS at Friern Barnet, and let them pick it apart - they claim they can do any Citroën, no matter how old, so here's their chance. Looks like a seal has failed.

[Cavcraft]

Spent days trying to think of an anagram for 'foolish otters' but then I thought life's too short.

[Junkman]

I fired up Auto Trader this morning to have a gander at local shite for sale and that has finally destroyed my will to live.   Well, my will to buy another old car anyway.  What an unremitting parade of bloated fucking warning-light-ridden Mr & Mrs McDonald-munching dog-faced slopy-fronted resale-silver Halfords hub-capped cup-holding pig shit that was.   Where are all the £750 Dolomites, Granadas and Datsuns now?

 

All the £750 Dolomites, Granadas and Datsuns are out there, only that they are £2,750 now.

This has two reasons:

 

1. 750 1988 Pounds are over 2,000 Pounds in today's money.

 

2. The cars have slightly appreciated during the past 30 years.

 

When I bought my first car in 1983, I opted for a 1960 model. This means, it was 23 years old. When I look for a 23 year old car today, I'll end up with a 1995 model, which inevitably will be an unremitting bloated fucking warning-light-ridden Mr & Mrs McDonald-munching dog-faced slopy-fronted resale-silver Halfords hub-capped cup-holding pig shit (and you forgot to mention that it will equally inevitably be propelled by a toxic tincture unsuitable for motor cars and have a pedal too many, despite the overwhelming majority does not even know how to operate a car so equipped, as you will instantly realise the first time you engage the clutch on the test drive).

 

1. This is considered progress and mark my words, it won't take ten minutes from now until I'll be branded as a miserable sod who refuses to live in the present, all the while wearing his sepia tinted glasses.

 

2. And this is the scary bit - Mr & Mrs McDonald-munching are allowed to vote and actually exercise their right.

[Mally]

You are a miserable old sod!

[Christine]

Ah , plus a minimum of £100 extra for bridge value , so your £250 car is really only £150... innit ?.. Just like a deposit on a Whites lemonade bottle  

 

All the £750 Dolomites, Granadas and Datsuns are out there, only that they are £2,750 now.

This has two reasons:

 

1. 750 1988 Pounds are over 2,000 Pounds in today's money.

 

2. The cars have slightly appreciated during the past 30 years.

 

When I bought my first car in 1983, I opted for a 1960 model. This means, it was 23 years old. When I look for a 23 year old car today, I'll end up with a 1995 model, which inevitably will be an unremitting bloated fucking warning-light-ridden Mr & Mrs McDonald-munching dog-faced slopy-fronted resale-silver Halfords hub-capped cup-holding pig shit (and you forgot to mention that it will equally inevitably be propelled by a toxic tincture unsuitable for motor cars and have a pedal too many, despite the overwhelming majority does not even know how to operate a car so equipped, as you will instantly realise the first time you engage the clutch on the test drive).

 

1. This is considered progress and mark my words, it won't take ten minutes from now until I'll be branded as a miserable sod who refuses to live in the present, all the while wearing his sepia tinted glasses.

 

2. And this is the scary bit - Mr & Mrs McDonald-munching are allowed to vote and actually exercise their right.

[fordperv]

Junkman here's an omg barnfind bargain granada, in a miserable spec with the correct gearbox

 

http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/205907/granada-barn-find-1599-north

[Supernaut]

Got an agency wanting to put me forward for an interview with an IT company. The pay is a little bit better than where I am now, but their website doesn't seem very professional.

 

Their homepage has an out of proportion photo of a rather iconic building in Aberdeen that they have nothing to do with. How do I know they have nothing to do with this building? It's a building that my current employer owns! DERP.

[Talbot]

Bloody youth of today.

 

Neighbours at the end of my garden were moving house over the weekend. Weren't really properly prepared for said move, but there we go. He doesn't drive, and although she does her car has been immobile for the past 6 months with an unknown Comedy French Failure. So, 20yo neighbour from down the road offers to help them move, and I lend him my slightly-bodily-knackered-but-mechanically-perfect box trailer to do so (being towed by a Panda.. really quite funny).

 

When I get the box trailer back it turns out he's managed to reverse jack-knife it and the locking handle for the jockywheel has gone though his bumper and sheared off. So I get handed back the broken bit and told "you can weld that can't you". Actually, no I can't, as it's bent all the threads, and I'll be lucky to get the bit out of the jockeywheel mounting, as there's only about three threads visible, and they're quite twisted. "oh well", and off he buggers.

 

Had that been me, even 20 years ago when I was that age, I would have been sourcing a new component as a bare minimum. Even if I couldn't offer assisitance to get the snapped bit out, I think replacing something you've broken is reasonable.

 

On top of that, I used my car transporter trailer to move her fucked Citroen from the road outside her flat to her new flat a few miles away. Granted, it helped me out somewhat as we now no longer have an abandoned and immobile car blocking wide access to my driveway, but a small donation to cover a bit of fuel might have been nice, even if it was offered and declined. Yes she was appreciative, but given that I'd just saved her a small fortune that a professional recovery would have been (and was her only real alternative) I wasn't overly impressed.

 

Makes you just not want to do things for people. Or lend anything.

 

Especially when both the bloke being moved and 20yo helper were flapping about while I was loading and unloading the Citroen "Shall I do this?", "I'll just move that", "You need to do X", "That won't work". Look, this isn't my first rodeo. If I need something doing, I'll ask. Cue even more flapping when my winch started slightly pissing about (the switch in the remote is a bit dodgy). "Is it the battery?", "I'll get some jump leads", "Here, I'll try it". JUST PISS OFF AND LET ME DO IT!! Yes, I know you're trying to help, but you're making this ten times more dangerous.

 

Gah!

[dozeydustman]

I've had 13 calls today from various people asking for "Dave". No surname, just "Dave". All from withheld numbers so I can't even block them.

 

Next phonecall asking for "Dave" will get an ear bashing. I reckon "Dave" has deliberately given out the wrong number