The grumpy thread

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

  On 30/11/2018 at 15:09, dozeydustman said:

Through experience asking for their VAT number tends to get you banned from their yard. The ones around here pay peanuts for cars but want an arm and a leg if you event take it off the car yourself.

 

 

 

Hence U Pull It. A clean tidy yard with regularly rotating stock on hardstanding, with cheap fixed prices.

 

Or some rigger booted gruffallo  'do u know how much they are new mate'.

 

'Yes I do mate. I also know how much the car it came from cost new'.

 

LC Hughes in Bicester and Deatons in Staveley are like that. They just pluck insane prices out of the air and they base them on main dealer prices, unaware that a new radiator for a Focus is probably 32 quid on Ebay. The tons of stuff that just gets left at the desk on a 'fuck that' basis is staggering. Deatons tried charging me £25 for a used BMW E30 clutch master cylinder when they were £22 new from ECP. I offered a tenner, rejected. All yours mate.

 

Best regular breakers - Smiths of Bloxham near Banbury. Silly cheap most of the time. 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

  On 26/11/2018 at 12:43, The Reverend Bluejeans said:

I wish this cunting cold would just FUCK OFF. After being given flu symptoms by the 'no side effects m8' flu jab, I've now contracted this bastard a week before an overseas holiday. Tremendous! Sweating like an over excited Ebayer with Dr Who memorabilia and Marina parts on the watch list, shaking like a shitting dog, coughing like a twat and unable to sleep for more than 30 mins at a time.

 

#Fuxakes

 

 

And five days later, the fucker is still here. Not as nasty, but still feel like shit. Plus three pints in the pub last night and I have a hangover, even now. 

[dozeydustman]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:35, The Reverend Bluejeans said:

Hence U Pull It. A clean tidy yard with regularly rotating stock on hardstanding, with cheap fixed prices.

 

Or some rigger booted gruffallo  'do u know how much they are new mate'.

 

'Yes I do mate. I also know how much the car it came from cost new'.

 

LC Hughes in Bicester and Deatons in Staveley are like that. They just pluck insane prices out of the air and they base them on main dealer prices, unaware that a new radiator for a Focus is probably 32 quid on Ebay. The tons of stuff that just gets left at the desk on a 'fuck that' basis is staggering. Deatons tried charging me £25 for a used BMW E30 clutch master cylinder when they were £22 new from ECP. I offered a tenner, rejected. All yours mate.

 

Best regular breakers - Smiths of Bloxham near Banbury. Silly cheap most of the time. 

 

 

This was AFTER I'd removed it from the car myself. I want to make sure what I'm getting isn't fucked or see the sort of condition the engine was in that I'd removed said component from.

 

I used to use Hartley Bottom breakers when I ran my Horizon some 20 years ago. They used to let me take parts I wanted/needed pence. Think I had 2 bin bags worth of spares for a fiver. He did have about 9 million of them though - it was the local Talbot Graveyard.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:15, purplebargeken said:

Since getting moved to London after the death of my mum in 1993, the move away from London has been a failry upfront topic in the house. It was we'll move when PBK son has finished school, then 6th form, then university, then he'll need to get his own place. 

 

When we go away we look in estate agents windows and so on. Most recent time was a weekend in Broadstairs, Mrs PBK says it'd be nice to move there, she's mentioned a bungalow previously because of my back issues. Now, due to the recent spate of stabbings and shootings, I mention moving. She now states that we won't be moving as I am retiring soon and she always felt pressured by me.

 

Fuck off.

 

So what, your comments about moving out of London were bollocks? No answer to that....... silence.

 

Well that's just fucking amazingly fucking great. Thanks for that.

 

 

 

Time to spread those wings Sir.

 

Fuck Kent as well.

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck me im knackered, only been plastering for six hours today. How do people do that for 40+ hours a week?

[anonymous user]

I really wish the bloody dogs wouldn't jump onto the kitchen table, that's another glass gone. It's a good job I don't have any dinner parties, or friends to invite for that matter, as I'm running out of glassware.

I appreciate that it is my own fault for not clearing the table and the dog was just doing the pre-wash cycle to save the dishwasher a job.

[purplebargeken]

RBJ. Very tempting mate.

 

The reasons: She's too young to move to the 'countryside', not ready to retire yet. She likes London. Need to sort PBK son out with a place.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 01/12/2018 at 17:26, dozeydustman said:

2 weeks ago Chichester 3s cancelled as oppo pulled out.

last week Old G's vets had 27 players and said they didn't need 28, save my diesel (even though I was in Gravesend at the time)

today Chi 3s opposition pulled out again.

 

 

Urgh!  What a ballache.

[barefoot]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:34, panhard65 said:

Who was complaining about christmas perfume ads ? What is not to like I just saw one with some bird getting out the back of a 4 door Citroen SM

 

 

A Citroen Opera.

[Timewaster]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:49, Tamworthbay said:

Fuck me im knackered, only been plastering for six hours today. How do people do that for 40+ hours a week?

In my experience, they don't. Rock up at 8, splatter the walls bish bash Bosch, gone before popmaster.

[chaseracer]

  On 01/12/2018 at 19:29, Timewaster said:

In my experience, they don't. Rock up at 8, splatter the walls bish bash Bosch, gone before popmaster.

 

And then go and do another one.

 

Rinse and repeat.

[SiC]

  On 01/12/2018 at 17:08, Hooli said:

Looks quality*

 

Time to weld some angle iron along the sides to reinforce it? I'm surprised there are no bars to triangulate the joint rather than leave like it is as it'll obviously do what yours has done in no time.

It was 28 quid delivered and I abuse it by dropping it off the edge of the lip of my garage. So I can't complain too much really.

 

Got plenty of sheet metal that I can plate it to fix it when necessary!

[DodgeRover]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:15, purplebargeken said:

Since getting moved to London after the death of my mum in 1993, the move away from London has been a failry upfront topic in the house. It was we'll move when PBK son has finished school, then 6th form, then university, then he'll need to get his own place.

 

When we go away we look in estate agents windows and so on. Most recent time was a weekend in Broadstairs, Mrs PBK says it'd be nice to move there, she's mentioned a bungalow previously because of my back issues. Now, due to the recent spate of stabbings and shootings, I mention moving. She now states that we won't be moving as I am retiring soon and she always felt pressured by me.

 

Fuck off.

 

So what, your comments about moving out of London were bollocks? No answer to that....... silence.

 

Well that's just fucking amazingly fucking great. Thanks for that.

Just start looking at 1 bedroom places with a garage on your own, that should focus her mind.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 01/12/2018 at 19:51, DodgeRover said:

Just start looking at 1 bedroom places with a garage on your own, that should focus her mind.

....or a mobile home in a caravan park. In Scotland.

[DodgeRover]

  On 01/12/2018 at 19:29, Timewaster said:

In my experience, they don't. Rock up at 8, splatter the walls bish bash Bosch, gone before popmaster.

Single coat shit then beloved of bodgers.

[DodgeRover]

  On 01/12/2018 at 19:49, SiC said:

It was 28 quid delivered and I abuse it by dropping it off the edge of the lip of my garage. So I can't complain too much really.

 

Got plenty of sheet metal that I can plate it to fix it when necessary!

Really it wants the axle moving forwards so it's under the edge of the bottle

[Richard]

  On 01/12/2018 at 20:01, Tadhg Tiogar said:

....or a mobile home in a caravan park. In Scotland.

Hasn't he suffered enough already?

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:15, purplebargeken said:

She now states that we won't be moving as I am retiring soon and she always felt pressured by me.

 

How is her not wanting to move not equally pressure on you? Marriage is a team effort. You need Relate, or maybe the 1 bed flat option already mentioned. Unless her career is something that can only realistically be pursued in 'that London' that excuse is flimsier than a Clarke toolbox.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 01/12/2018 at 20:09, Richard said:

Hasn't he suffered enough already?

 

I think he should do it properly.

[andy18s]

  On 01/12/2018 at 19:51, DodgeRover said:

Just start looking at 1 bedroom places with a garage on your own, that should focus her mind.

The village I'm buying in has a few houses for sale at around £3k.....

[MikeR]

On a night bus

 

 

Shhhhhh

[SierraMikeHotel]

  On 01/12/2018 at 16:38, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Lady Grumpius has decided Christmas is about to start. She's downstairs, covered in tinsel, playing horrible Christmas music out of her phone (which I hate, it does my ears in) so I'm spending about twice as long as strictly necessary to hoover upstairs. Right now, I'm on my laptop with the hoover running, to pretend that I'm still hoovering so that she leaves me alone and I don't have to hear fucking Slade or Wizzard or whichever fucking shitty song she's playing...

 

I fucking HATE Christmas.

Mrs H's worst habit, in my mind, is playing music/radio plays on her phone. It's tinny so she has to have it so loud that it carries through the whole house. It sounds paradoxical but it would be less intrusive if she put it through the HiFi.

 

I also hate most aspects of Christmas and especially the music, which is an insult to anyone who likes music.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 01/12/2018 at 16:38, GrumpiusMaximus said:

....I fucking HATE Christmas....

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 01/12/2018 at 22:45, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 

 

The horse looks too happy.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 01/12/2018 at 22:02, SierraMikeHotel said:

Mrs H's worst habit, in my mind, is playing music/radio plays on her phone. It's tinny so she has to have it so loud that it carries through the whole house. It sounds paradoxical but it would be less intrusive if she put it through the HiFi.

 

I also hate most aspects of Christmas and especially the music, which is an insult to anyone who likes music.

 

Absolutely.

 

Although it's not as bad as the habit of my boss' husband.  Apparently he likes to play hardcore gangsta rap through the Sonos system in their house without warning and with all the adult content unfiltered.  This would be fine apart from the 11-year old, 9-year old and 5-year old children and wife that hates gangsta rap...

[Guest Hooli]

  On 01/12/2018 at 18:13, LightBulbFun said:

as others said I Hope Mrs Bub makes a swift recovery

 

CT (and MRI) scans are fun*, at least on my last CT scan they had a screen for me to watch a movie from their small section I chose Pirates of the Caribbean

 

so i can* say "I saw a donkeys arse get thwacked with a orange hot sword during a CT scan!"  (in my many MRI scans they offered some air based headphones to play music through which where about as use as a chocolate teapot once things started...)

 

The last MRI I had I'd fallen asleep by the time it started & they said they could hear me snoring in the control room. I took it as a compliment

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Last time I had an MRI, I listened to Portishead.  Their second album, specifically.  In fact, the opening note of 'Cowboys' was the same note as the sound of the scanner...

 

That was both surreal and highly entertaining.  They are yet to confirm the presence of a brain.

[Guest Hooli]

Mine gave me the highly* useful diagnosis that my neck is fucked, yeah thanks. I knew that already its why I asked what was wrong with it.

 

My lower back is the same but I've given up with Drs now so have found ways to manage it myself.

[SiC]

How does headphones work in an MRI scanner? Surely the massive magnetic field not only buggers up the headphone speaker but also the metal content will want it to be pulled towards the torus?

[SiC]

  On 02/12/2018 at 00:19, SiC said:

How does headphones work in an MRI scanner? Surely the massive magnetic field not only buggers up the headphone speaker but also the metal content will want it to be pulled towards the torus?

Ah a quick Google shows they're air driven. Like how aeroplane headphones used to be, before headphones could be made for pennies.