The grumpy thread

[dozeydustman]

Sorry about the Rugby mate, I know you were looking forward to it. Any reason?

 

 

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.

[LightBulbFun]

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...)

[purplebargeken]

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.

[richardmorris]

No I had that not quite 3 years ago, had the xantia at the time... May dig the letter out but it won't be 3 years ago.

Meh, one of those things

Oh well. As you say, just drive slowly.

My late grandfather got a ticket last year for 35mph. His first, he said in 70 years of driving- no one else knew, he didn’t tell his son or my parents. He was offered a course but paid the ticket as it was quite a way for him to go to attend. Car and insurance was motability so no comeback- and he died a few months later anyway.

[LightBulbFun]

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.

 

Liked out of sympathy because im stuck in a sort of similar situation complete with a knackered back....

 

out of sheer curiosity if you dont mind me asking, whats your wifes excuse for wanting to stay where you live?

[panhard65]

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

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Hasn't he suffered enough already?

[somewhatfoolish]

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]

Hasn't he suffered enough already?

 

I think he should do it properly.

[andy18s]

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]

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]

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

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

 

 

The horse looks too happy.