The grumpy thread

January 17, 2019

Wife taken a turn for the worse. Severe pressure build up on the brain. I feel so broken

Wish I could help dude, you two don't deserve crap like that.

132,612 · January 17, 2019

Couldn't do your job Wazzer, take my hat off to you taxi drivers.

12,048 · January 17, 2019

Actually clicked on the advert now, I paid under half that for a newer one with less miles a year ago. Hth

She's got it down to £1,000 and going to see it on Monday now, it is only five miles from her work.

12,048 · January 17, 2019

Also, very sorry to hear of your troubles Bub and hope it resolves well for you both.

4,595 · January 17, 2019

From the sound of it my nextdoor neighbour is killing a young woman.

I might knock on the wall and ask if she'll die slightly more quietly.

22,293 · January 18, 2019

As the days go on I feel like it's getting more and more likely I'm gonna drop out of uni, or at least have to resit the year.

WTC, as a delivery person I know the pain, we can't get fuck all done and GMP are no better even with the media on their back.

Bub, that's just fucking awful, you deserve a turn for the better more than all of us.
I also have back issues, fucking hereditary, as I'm iffy as is, and my mum and her brother (55 and 59) both have very bad backs, and it's already coming for me at 23. Luckily they don't hit our heads directly but we're all mentally ill. It won't get as bad as you're seeing but I think I'm going to be in pain for the rest of my life. I'm already restricted to what I can do from my mental health, my mum's been basically retired for mainly physical but also mental reasons since she had me at 33.

20,491 · January 18, 2019

From the sound of it my nextdoor neighbour is killing a young woman.

I might knock on the wall and ask if she'll die slightly more quietly.

Or phone the police and express your concern. It may well be that there is domestic violence. And if it's just a film on Netflix played too loud at least it'll give you both something to laugh about in years to come.

17,952 · January 18, 2019

I can understand that sometimes you have to shut sections of motorway at night for maintenance and upgrades, but surely you can do better with the signage for the diversion and not take it down roads that are already narrowed by their own works.

I'm looking at you M1!!

23,846 · January 18, 2019

Or phone the police and express your concern. It may well be that there is domestic violence. And if it's just a film on Netflix played too loud at least it'll give you both something to laugh about in years to come.

My neighbours probably used to think that I used to beat up my housemate with the names we used to scream at each other but we were just playing Mario Kart.

20,491 · January 18, 2019

My neighbours probably used to think that I used to beat up my housemate with the names we used to scream at each other but we were just playing Mario Kart.

Yeah. I'm thinking of phoning the police about the crimes to music from n3xt door. Attempting to play oasis on an out of tune guitar at 2 in the morning is bad enough, but you are clearly tone death when sober so please don't try to sing when you've been out with the boyz.

23,781 · January 18, 2019

98 year old drivers.

10,876 · January 18, 2019

They need to visit our local Co-Op too.
The choice of music is bad enough but they have tuned the radio slightly off station so it's all as distorted as hell and then turned it right up.
No-one in the place seemed to even be aware of the ear-splitting noise.

That's actually 'Co-Op radio' a mock station that's supposed to sound like that, to put punters into a sixties, pirate radio groove.

January 18, 2019

I can understand that sometimes you have to shut sections of motorway at night for maintenance and upgrades, but surely you can do better with the signage for the diversion and not take it down roads that are already narrowed by their own works.

I'm looking at you M1!!

I'm sure they do this as leaving the cones out is cheaper than the warehouse space to store them. It can't be for roadworks as there is never anyone working on them.

5,763 · January 18, 2019

My trousers I do a lot of slobbing about it have gone through at the knee, will soon be shorts! Am faced with the great prospect of going shopping in town for more. Great.

Pray for me...............

4,595 · January 18, 2019

Or phone the police and express your concern. It may well be that there is domestic violence. And if it's just a film on Netflix played too loud at least it'll give you both something to laugh about in years to come.

Me and the Mrs assumed he was having sexy time, with a braying donkey.

2,279 · January 18, 2019

7 day fucking ban on FB for a picture of ET ffs!

Fucking wankers.

ooouuuuuccchhhhhhhhhh…………...

20,491 · January 18, 2019

My trousers I do a lot of slobbing about it have gone through at the knee, will soon be shorts! Am faced with the great prospect of going shopping in town for more. Great.
Pray for me...............

I bought a black pair of Levi 501s from Debenhams 2 years ago. Wore them every day until there was sign of wear and recently went back to Debenhams and bought the exact same jeans. They were not cheap but having found a cut that fits me right, I reckon the extra cost of not pissing around trying to find something that fits my shape is worth it

I tried ordering the exact same trainers off the interweb but trainers ? Fucking obsolete after 10 mins.

8,916 · January 18, 2019

....an hour of questions about my mental health: can you use a phone, computer, add up?

Er, yes...

Being a self-confessed technocripple, you're stretching the truth a bit there about being able to use a computer!

6,824 · January 18, 2019

Sorry to hear your wife is ill bub. Hope she is on the mend soon.

9,692 · January 18, 2019

Thanks all of you. Top folk here for Al of your concern

23,846 · January 18, 2019

They need to visit our local Co-Op too.
The choice of music is bad enough but they have tuned the radio slightly off station so it's all as distorted as hell and then turned it right up.
No-one in the place seemed to even be aware of the ear-splitting noise.

They pull some music from the pits of hell in that place. I was in there recently and they were playing Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams and Stings 'All for Love', a song so shit it, Frank Zappa gave up on living shortly after it's release. The history books might say he died of cancer but those in the know, know the real cause of death was a severe case of having heard 'All for Love'.

19,896 · January 18, 2019

Only trying to service the fucker

Dave hates me

Glad didn't try meself now

26,252 · January 18, 2019

Heading for the ferry tonight,

Then the long haul from Holyhead to North Norfolk begins.

Saying goodbye to a loved one is never easy,harder still with the distance involved

14,698 · January 18, 2019

Sorry for your wife's ongoing health problems Bub, I'm hoping that with a surgeon doing the lumbar procedure this time he gets it right and it relieves the pain for her.

I have my fingers and toes crossed for you both

2,931 · January 18, 2019

Heading for the ferry tonight,
Then the long haul from Holyhead to North Norfolk begins.

Saying goodbye to a loved one is never easy,harder still with the distance involved

Bad times, good luck for the journey and for when you actually get there.

Bub - hope things take a turn for the better.

9,491 · January 18, 2019

noticed this bitch in McDs with her brat the other night ... in fact most people in McDs did ...

the games tablets were being put away as it was 7pm , but the brat wanted to play on one , but was not allowed to touch them as they needed a clean

so the tablet got left out , it got cleaned ... and the brat went quiet ,,, nice of the staff !!!

meals ends , and bitch just drags the brat out of the door , does not even bother trying to clear the table which looks like 10 people have had a food fight

this was also noticed by everyone ....

some right charmers out there ... with baggage !

42,815 · January 18, 2019

Just to finish off the Virgin Media grump (and yes, I do appreciate that this all is the nadir of triviality whilst some members have loved ones in hospital and other are facing housing issues - but this thread's all about a broad sweep, yes?)

Well, by the time I'd arrived home the bunch of diggy-dig twats had gone, leaving only random stacks of orange barriers and lumps of bitmac everywhere. Terrific.

Have your neighbours received any notification?
Additionally are you aware there must be a sign at the location of the road works which inform the public of why the works are being undertaken, by whom and contact information.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/4383/bestpracticeinstreetworks.pdf
Road works have to be coordinated by the local authorities. If the road has recently (how recently?) had a new service then maybe it should not have been excavated for a period of time.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/43578/street-works-code-of-practice.pdf
Read chapter 2. if of interest.

edit. Just do not take no for an answer.

I took a walk around, and there was indeed a small sign at the end of the road (obscured by a van) advising that the works were being done by ECJ Contracting (or something) on behalf of Virgin Media, and an emergency contract number. Still no clearer whether anyone else was informed about the works - Virgin were adamant their 'agent' had notified us. Well, whatever. They didn't.

The newly-laid footpath is now a total mess, with the cut-and-cover work badly filled in using a totally different tarmac based aggregate; some of it sitting well above the existing surface (nice trip hazard), others well below it (puddles and freeze-thaw will have that destroyed in no time).

We also have a plastic cover that's been jammed in at our boundary, enabling us to connect to Virgin Media services. Whoopee-doo.

My delight is curtailed by the fact that when we moved here, Virgin didn't offer any service and were utterly disinterested when I contacted them to ask if they had any plans to bring it to the area. We then had to pay a 'broken contract' penalty because we were moving from our old home before our existing contract had expired, but then they continued to bill us too. My opinion of this company is not terribly high.

Since we're talking about Northern Ireland here, things are a bit different regarding legislation and requirements... roadworks are (supposedly) co-ordinated by the Department for Infrastructure, as councils over here have a very limited role in roads and transport. It's also the case (apparently) that there's no legal framework for challenging badly-run or repaired roadworks in NI law other than through issuing criminal proceedings - which explains why Phoenix Gas get away with leaving potholed disasters in their wake. There are 'guidelines' that mean that works should be co-ordinated to avoid digging up roads and footways, but in practice this doesn't seem to happen.

So yeah. Bollocks to the lot of them. I'll take a few pictures of the mess in daylight tomorrow but, furious as I am, I can't find it in me to push this any further right now.

Newsflash: company founded by irritating minge-faced smugwump chancer is irritating and chancerish. Hey ho.

Best wishes to Bubs and to DozeyDustman; really hope things start looking up for you guys.

January 18, 2019

Virgin Media

I still remember them blowing an entire house up by hitting a gas main & lighting it when they were called NTL.

We use them at work & they are just as utterly useless for five & six figure contracts.

14,851 · January 18, 2019

Ntl destroyed every pavement in the whole town when they first arrived.

Closely followed by various utilities repairing the damage done. Gas, water, bt and electric all got faults and leaks all over the place.

132,612 · January 18, 2019

Heading for the ferry tonight,
Then the long haul from Holyhead to North Norfolk begins.

Saying goodbye to a loved one is never easy,harder still with the distance involved

Sorry to hear that, chief.

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