The grumpy thread

[MorrisItalSLX]

LG OLED TV AI ThinQ

Er, what?  Is that supposed to be a telly?  I don't need a cumbersome name like that cluttering up my 45-year-old episodes of M*A*S*H, thank you.

 

Did you ever watch those episodes of Bluey and Bargearse?

 

Also, why do I remember this stray converstion from ages ago but can not remember what I had for dinner last night?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...why do I remember this stray converstion from ages ago but can not remember what I had for dinner last night?

Short-term memory loss?

[sierraman]

Why do chavs all go ‘trust me’ at the beginning of every sentence.

[Kiltox]

They can’t routinely X ray parcels surely?

Ones destined for air mail? Surely they do!

[Guest Hooli]

Why do chavs all go ‘trust me’ at the beginning of every sentence.

 

its sick innit blud

[fordperv]

Why do chavs all go ‘trust me’ at the beginning of every sentence.

Because no one in their right mind would trust them, they have to keep saying it to make people think they are honest

[MorrisItalSLX]

They can’t routinely X ray parcels surely?

 

I beleive all air/sea mail is X rayed. I know all international post is X rayed when entering Australia.

[sierraman]

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but why does everyone in offices now drink 25 gallons of water a day through one of those bottles that incessantly makes an annoying slurp every time they take another gulp of water.

 

I get how it’s healthy to drink water infused with Cucumber but can’t they just drink a normal quantity of it in a normal cup without making an irritating noise.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I have to be at work at half 4 tomorrow. Going to do my 5th CPC module. We share with 5 other local councils. Why we have to leave the depot at 5 to go to Lewes I have no idea. It's a 45 minute journey at that time of the morning and it starts at 8am.

Wave on your way past!

[Mally]

I've had an airbag delivered in the UK, only bought the wheel though.

Bags still in my garage, will Nuns and Kittens die?

[Kiltox]

I've had an airbag delivered in the UK, only bought the wheel though.

Bags still in my garage, will Nuns and Kittens die?

Some couriers will take them

[alcyonecorporation]

Because no one in their right mind would trust them, they have to keep saying it to make people think they are honest

'I swear down' is more common in my neck of the wood.

[Cavcraft]

Social media: if you encourage and/or film someone with mental health, drink or drug issues to do something ‘funny’ then you’re an absolute twat.

[alcyonecorporation]

Social media: if you encourage and/or film someone with mental health, drink or drug issues to do something ‘funny’ then you’re an absolute twat.

Agreed x 1000

[Craig the Princess]

Social media: if you encourage and/or film someone with mental health, drink or drug issues to do something ‘funny’ then you’re an absolute twat.

Couldn't agree more.

Also an 6/7 year old falling over on their face really isn't funny, ladbible.

[DVee8]

Couldn't agree more.

Also an 6/7 year old falling over on their face really isn't funny, ladbible.

You've been framed have being paying out 250 for this for years..

[Captain Furious]

Ladbible is about as funny as a punch in the face.

[alcyonecorporation]

Two weeks ago, I got two flat tyres on my Leon - one through the sidewall of the tyre that was on it, then another in the full size spare I keep at home (it wasn't supplied with a spare, just inflation goop).

 

My mate at a tyre place still has the tyre/wheel he took a week ago to fit a new shoe to and has since disappeared off the face of the planet (and no-one knows who he is).

 

The RAC took SIX HOURS to come out and kept changing what they could/couldn't do for me in terms of finding the tyre. Their new Mancunian call centre is the pits and the staff don't have a clue.

 

I bought another tyre online a day later and it still hasn't arrived. People keep saying to me 'ooh, stop being awkward and just get a mobile tyre place to fit one'. How about no? I'm not paying nearly £50 extra in mark up for exactly the same sodding tyre just because a bloke in a fucked Transit has to come out and fit it. Got really annoyed with several very misleading local mobile tyre places which are all geared up to fit pairs of [massively price gouged] tyres for free. Want a single tyre fitting? Suck it up, shitmuncher: that's £25 on top of another tyre that's already £25 more than it is online.

 

Normally I'd just swear to myself and pay the extra to keep mobile - but I don't have the extra right now. I'd just brimmed the Seat when the tyre went and was another £50-odd down having the first tyre replaced, caused the same day by my neighbour's useless twat of a tradesman who drops nails, screws and fittings all over the road carrying stuff between his van and the house (he finds the concept of putting things in boxes hard to grasp). I'd bill the fucker for messing me around but judging by the state of his van, he hasn't got two pennies to rub together.

 

The fact that every tyre place seems to hide this extra single tyre fitting charge until you're at the final online checkout did not amuse me. I'm not exactly living hand-to-mouth but an unexpected bill has not left me far off that; when you're in the context of what Mo aptly described as 'pay this, pay that' hidden charges are no joke. I'm watching every penny.

 

I was so sick of everyone and everything pissing me around I just stuck what little I had left in the 605 and will continue to daily it until my tyre turns up.

 

 

I'm getting about 44 mpg if I go to the cheapest local filling station near work - more than my diseased white example and pretty respectable for its weight, age and performance. It isn't what you'd call quick but it has a useful slug of torque between 2500 and 3500 rpm which gets it up entry slip roads just fine.

 

Oh, and just to complicate matters, my wallet got nicked two nights ago and my bank aren't exactly tanning their guts out to get a new card out to me. 'Just go into branch to get some money,' they said. Mmmm, yeah, great lads, I'll just nip into a branch when I'm filling the car up at 10pm, yeah? Your nearest branch is a 20 minute drive away, is always rammed to the rafters and the parking charges nearby are mental. Yeah, sound, great, cheers.

 

It's because of shit like that I couldn't come to Eddyfest.

[New POD]

Social media: if you encourage and/or film someone with mental health, drink or drug issues to do something ‘funny’ then you’re an absolute twat.

I thought that was the reason for watsap? Or Instagram?

[mercrocker]

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but why does everyone in offices now drink 25 gallons of water a day through one of those bottles that incessantly makes an annoying slurp every time they take another gulp of water.

 

I get how it’s healthy to drink water infused with Cucumber but can’t they just drink a normal quantity of it in a normal cup without making an irritating noise.

 

This is just one (but a major one) of the fucking things people do at work nowadays that get right up my chuff.    So many of these pricks are doing it they have now taken away the bottled water machines as "colleagues have told us they are not using them".    Well I fucking did, now I have to bring in my own bottled water.   Which I pour into a proper glass and drink quietly.   This comes after the canteen shutting at 1pm "to concentrate on peak useage periods".    Just dandy when you work a 12.00 noon to 9pm shift.....

[beko1987]

I hate them too! I drink water out of a pint glass I swiped from the local pub 6 or 7 years ago. Luckily we have a filtered zip tap thing. Fucking hipster shite, all the girls have one, they give them to each other as birthday gifts. Make sme sick

[Kiltox]

Wanky managed office here so there’s a plethora of proper glasses to drink from, crockery etc and dishwashers to wash it all.

 

And one of those filter tap things.

 

What does boil my piss is the people that stack their dirty dishes on the counter above the dishwashers.

[Zelandeth]

No, Auto Assist...I DO NOT FSCKING WANT TO DISCUSS MY RECENT CAR ACCIDENT!

 

Sorry...just had the ninth call in 24 hours from the suckers...doing my bloody head in.

 

Annoyingly they keep calling from a withheld number, so can't even blacklist them.

 

Given the number of calls were fielding from the hospital at present sticking the phone into "only accept calls from known numbers" mode is a non starter as they always show as an unknown number.

[chaseracer]

'I swear down' is more common in my neck of the wood.

 

What does that even mean?

[Captain Furious]

I started using 'swear down' ironically but its gradually crept into my every day vocabulary.  I usually write it 'sware down' in honour of its alternate fb spelling.

[New POD]

No, Auto Assist...I DO NOT FSCKING WANT TO DISCUSS MY RECENT CAR ACCIDENT!

 

Sorry...just had the ninth call in 24 hours from the suckers...doing my bloody head in.

 

Annoyingly they keep calling from a withheld number, so can't even blacklist them.

 

Given the number of calls were fielding from the hospital at present sticking the phone into "only accept calls from known numbers" mode is a non starter as they always show as an unknown number.

 

Just say YES. 

[Pillock]

What does that even mean?

Same as swearing on someone's grave. Square root of fuck all.

[chaseracer]

Thx.  I R not down wiv da kidz no more.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

So, that ridiculous accent which is creeping in everywhere, including tv and radio, rears it’s ugly head again.

You know the one - think of the recent KFC radio advert where it was explained that the bargain bucket was, “ONLEE NAAN NAAANDY NAAN,” and that KFC food is, “FINGOH LICKINN GUD.”

 

It’s now appeared on the latest Spotify radio advert, which plays regularly, as I use the freebie deal. I wonder if they’ve done it on purpose so that people sign up to the paid-for service, in order to sack off the annoying twat.

 

The accent is summed up in this yootube link. Watch and cringe.

[dollywobbler]

A blonde lady kills a goat in Scotland, and it's headline bloody news everywhere. She's not the first stupid person with a gun to kill a goat in Scotland. Not by a long chalk, so I can only assume it's because she's a blonde lady that this is somehow news. 

 

Not defending people who think a dead animal is essential for the perfect selfie - that's just sick. But, the media frenzy seems out of all proportion.