The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

I was just about to say you should encourage email communications. If she does play silly buggers again, have them printed and bound for the court with all her messing around and failures highlighted.

 

When my ex was being a dickhead, I just kept all the texts. It was many years ago when texts weren't really able to be saved like that but with my new-fangled smartphone I found it was possible. The look on her face when I produced time stamped examples in court was worth the cost of the phone by itself.

[New POD]

Had a phone call yesterday. From the solicitors dealing with the sale of my late ma's house. Buyers want to complete "before the weekend".

 

Hold on, it's Thursday.

 

Yeah, so although the house was mostly clear I've still had three transit loads of furniture up to the charity warehouse and a carload of stuff home. Then the buyers dad popped around, lovely chap.... They told the solicitors a week ago! The wankers that we've just had to pay £900-odd quid sat on that nugget of info for a week

Just say "No" what the fuck are they going to do ? Pull out ? At this late stage ? Probably too late now. But next time ??

[Pillock]

Didn't want to risk it. Just want it all to be over and not have to be driving 2 hour round trips a couple of times a week.

 

Also, the longer it was dragging on through the winter they might notice the house is damp as fuck and the roof is leaking. As it is, from 4pm today that is the very definition of "not my problem".

 

Also I felt a bit bad that this couple were moving into their first house and the solicitors had told them it would be all sorted. They're all excited so a bit of effort my end meant they're in their new home. Maybe I'm too soft.

[Snipes]

The pay rise I've been working my bollocks off for has finally happened after 5 years aaaaaand it's not even half of what I was expecting and puts me on about £350 less p/m than the other guy doing the same job with about the second experience etc.

It's still a raise, so I should be happy, but I'm grumpy as fook because they obviously think I can be mugged off on the cheap.

Time to hit the job market I suppose.

[New POD]

The pay rise I've been working my bollocks off for has finally happened after 5 years aaaaaand it's not even half of what I was expecting and puts me on about £350 less p/m than the other guy doing the same job with about the second experience etc.

It's still a raise, so I should be happy, but I'm grumpy as fook because they obviously think I can be mugged off on the cheap.

Time to hit the job market I suppose.

Go back to them and say "I am unhappy. I will leave if you don't pay me 20% more from next month"

 

Then hit jobsites.

[Captain Furious]

People in shops who buy scratch cards, then malinger at the counter while they scratch them all off. Piss off and lose your money on your own time, I’ve got places to be.

[SiC]

Broken the screen on my S8+ again. Third time I've done it to this bloody phone. FFS

 

Never had a phone so bloody fragile. It only feel about a foot from my oily hands onto the floor. It's got a rubber bumper case around it too.

[Kiltox]

Broken the screen on my S8+ again. Third time I've done it to this bloody phone. FFS

 

Never had a phone so bloody fragile. It only feel about a foot from my oily hands onto the floor. It's got a rubber bumper case around it too.

 

I smashed an iPhone 5 screen in the same kind of circumstances - despite dropping it a thousand times previously it fell from an overall pocket whilst I was under a car, so well under a foot.

 

Smashed to absolute fuck.

[Zelandeth]

Stumbled across a flipdot display from a bus being used for general display purposes at the convention I'm attending this weekend. Idly grumbled at myself for not getting a couple a few years ago when I was offered any number of the full systems from a local operator free. They were renovating several vehicles and all the blinds were being upgraded to LED ones, old stuff was getting binned.

 

At the time I said no, because "I didn't have room" for stuff like that, in a fit of common sense. However I've always kinda fancied one to make an epic looking clock out of. Reminded of that today, just went and looked around eBay.

 

HOW BLOODY MUCH?!? Looks like they've become "trendy" for use in fancy offices and bars.

 

Balls...guess that's never going to happen then. Especially as I've not really got any contacts in the trade any more.

[chaseracer]

Wait until they stop being "trendy".  End of next week, probably.

 

[SierraMikeHotel]

My job has an on-call function and I was up all last night dealing with something.  That's a bit annoying, but not the grump - it's just a part of the job.

 

Mrs H and I were supposed to go to a gig in Greenwich with my mum and sister tonight but having had just a couple of hours of dozing I don't feel up to going.  Again, that's annoying but not the grump - I gambled with my on-call and lost.

 

The grump is that my mum and sister have both been trying to guilt trip me into going.  No, I am absolutely not travelling 60 odd miles up from the south coast when I know I would just hate every minute of it because I'd be feeling tired and sick, then face the journey home.  I do not like being guilt-tripped.

 

It's all so bloody one-sided, as well - Mum tried to argue that it's not hard to get to London, so then why has she not visited us once since we bought our house?  And we can't sleep there afterwards because it's too hard for her to have overnight guests.

 

She has a lot of issues and my sympathy is large but it's reached its limits at the moment...

[rainagain]

I’ve got chicken pox and my face feels like someone has taken a cheese grater across it. All I want to do is sleep.

[beko1987]

£98. Fucking £98! Wont be brimming the 406 much anymore...

 

Then the esso app didn't register me replacing the pump so one of the staff came out and gave it a good kicking, and I rebooted my phone.

 

The good kicking probably explains why it's pissing out diesel from the handle... Plus to Che k it was reset he took the diesel nozzle out and squeezed a slosh out all over the front of the pump! Nearly dropped my fag in shock...

[LostnotFound]

I flick my tea dregs and the bag (I leave the bag in my tea) into the BLUE ROLL ONLY bin now as it soaks up the liquid

Given none of us work with you so you don't need to pretend to make terrible tea to avoid us asking for a brew, I can only summise you do butcher our national drink.

 

It's a good job I'm not a snowflake and will just simmer with rage inside rather than virtue signal on twitter....

[Supernaut]

To the driver of the tractor who refused to pull in for over 5 miles earlier, and the queue of about 15 cars who steadfastly refused to overtake it... FUCK OFF AND DIE IN A FIRE. ALL OF YOU.

 

I ended up being that guy and leap-frogging from about 10 cars back to just behind the tractor in one swoop, pulled in to let an oncoming car past (who so kindly flashed their lights and leaned on their horn at me, even though I was already clear, you cunt), then I pulled out and overtook the tractor.

 

I was in the oldest vehicle in the entire mess by a huge margin, and not a single one of them followed me past the tractor even though we were on a long downhill straight.

 

It's equally depressing and annoying that nobody seems to be able to figure out how to perform an overtake now.

[Eddie Honda]

£98. Fucking £98!

98 is the magic number Beko. That's how many kilos that Miele W5740 washing machine weighs.

 

With no "Easilift" (or space), I haven't even looked at removing it from the trailer.

[beko1987]

98 is the magic number Beko. That's how many kilos that Miele W5740 washing machine weighs.

 

With no "Easilift" (or space), I haven't even looked at removing it from the trailer.

Well guess who got a pen from Pillock at cannock...

[chaseracer]

Artillery's started...

[Zelandeth]

Bloody hell body, could my body just give me a break and just work vaguely normally for a couple of days?

 

I've been looking forward to this event all sodding year, I do not want to go to bed before eight in the evening. Yet the pounding headache and desire for nothing more than to hide from the evil, evil light and inescapable fatigue say otherwise.

 

Blarg.

[purplebargeken]

Had enough now, cars can go and fuck off. I'm done.

 

The Beemer can sell for not very much on here or be bean cans at the weekend. Not bothered either way.

 

Just going to focus on the Toledo now and balls to anything else. 

[Parky]

Artilllery here too. Two doors away are re-enacting the Somme barrage.

 

Wouldn’t mind but they are in their fifties and have no kids. Their dogs are going apeshit and my cats are terrified

[rantingYoof]

To the driver of the tractor who refused to pull in for over 5 miles earlier, and the queue of about 15 cars who steadfastly refused to overtake it... FUCK OFF AND DIE IN A FIRE. ALL OF YOU.

 

I ended up being that guy and leap-frogging from about 10 cars back to just behind the tractor in one swoop, pulled in to let an oncoming car past (who so kindly flashed their lights and leaned on their horn at me, even though I was already clear, you cunt), then I pulled out and overtook the tractor.

 

I was in the oldest vehicle in the entire mess by a huge margin, and not a single one of them followed me past the tractor even though we were on a long downhill straight.

 

It's equally depressing and annoying that nobody seems to be able to figure out how to perform an overtake now.

 

Ah yes, the way people react to other cars doing OMG STRANGE* THINGS on the road baffles me.

 

I was heading south from Towcester on the A5 on site visits last week. The A5 is a 60mph road with a very good. smooth surface and is pretty much arrow straight, and quite wide at some points too. I like it in the Lexus because it's basically silent running.

 

I was wafting down at bang on 60mph on the cruise control, and came up behind a Q2 or something pootling along at 40mph. The planets must have been aligned perfectly because I approached it during a significant break in the oncoming traffic to the point where I was able to signal, pull out and pass the car without even disengaging cruise control almost like I was on a dual-carriageway. I left a massive gap too, because the road was nice and wide at that point.

 

I pulled gently back in as the car appeared wholly in my rear-view mirror, and was greeted with the driver of the Q2 having some sort of apocalyptic rage-fit at the wheel, and I got three long main-beam flashes for my troubles.

 

It was about the most easiest and stress-free overtakes I've ever done on such a road, and the other driver was in absolutely no danger at any point. Particularly in the Lexus, 40mph on that road would feel like a crawl, so I guess the speed differential took them by surprise, but as I have used the dashcam to work out the small speedometre overread I can be 100% certain I was not going faster than 60mph.

 

I've given up trying to work out why the driver was so cross and put it down to them having a shitty day.

[MikeR]

how is it my body feels like its been dragged throu a hedge sideways , trampled by a herd and I need to wake up in the recovery position on my week off work...

 

but when work starts ...

 

 i do work on the car , do the cooking and cleaning

 

have my couple ( bottles )  of plonks , some cans , a donner or two  , piles of chips , watch a movie

 

and

 

I can be woken at silly O clock by a taxi call ... ( yes mate , its there in 10 , bye )

 

be the first up

 

cook breakfast ( and serve and  eat it  )

 

clear the garden of cat and dog shit , do the bins , and clean the toilet ... ( well I would have to after that lot )

 

 

as for the dog , he is still toasting his paws in front of the fire after the last trek I took him on ...... wimp !!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Early November is of course the calling of The Moron. Fireworks are of particular interest to The Moron.

 

The Moron finds the big bangs exciting, because he is very stupid and easily pleased.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

A client was telling me 2 days before competition the buyer suddenly wanted a periodic test done on the electrics and the boiler servicing.

 

 

 

The buyer of the rental house I sold in Jan tried that trick. I informed the solicitors that the sale was now off and that I would put the house back on the rental market. That was the rocket that was needed. They were already a grand and survey charges in........

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Artilllery here too. Two doors away are re-enacting the Somme barrage.

 

Wouldn’t mind but they are in their fifties and have no kids. Their dogs are going apeshit and my cats are terrified

 

 

 

How far can you throw a stick of dynamite? Any tall trees/fences?

[Zelandeth]

They're driving an Audi. Therefore anything anyone else does on the road is a cause for rage.

 

Probably doing 40mph as their teeth will be rattled from their skull if they go any faster should they run over a single errant pebble or twig.

[New POD]

how is it my body feels like its been dragged throu a hedge sideways , trampled by a herd and I need to wake up in the recovery position on my week off work...

 

but when work starts ...

 

i do work on the car , do the cooking and cleaning

 

have my couple ( bottles ) of plonks , some cans , a donner or two , piles of chips , watch a movie

 

and

 

I can be woken at silly O clock by a taxi call ... ( yes mate , its there in 10 , bye )

 

be the first up

 

cook breakfast ( and serve and eat it )

 

clear the garden of cat and dog shit , do the bins , and clean the toilet ... ( well I would have to after that lot )

 

 

as for the dog , he is still toasting his paws in front of the fire after the last trek I took him on ...... wimp !!

Do you need a hug ???

[stonedagain]

Artilllery here too. Two doors away are re-enacting the Somme barrage.

 

Wouldn’t mind but they are in their fifties and have no kids. Their dogs are going apeshit and my cats are terrified

Have they got a bonfire lit? If so, gather a carrier bag full of aerosols, tie the top, then wait till they're not looking & lob it into the fire!

[MarvinsMom]

got stuck with working nights all week this coming week.

 

so no NEC for me this year.

 

shit,