The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

Minor grump from me. After a great break in France, I had to come back to blighty and actually do something. Great run (new record set, 14hrs 16 mins including Chunnel and stops) but got to the local village (3 miles away) and the snow started. This was the scene first thing this morning.

 

Why did I need to come back?

 

 

You’ve left bucketeer in charge in France?

[Aston Martin]

Fuck my miserable life.

 

I'm on the ferry to dublin. It's an easy says work, however it's a shared cabin.

 

Last time i got lucky and the guy fucked off somewhere. Think he found a spare room.

 

Today, I am not so lucky.

 

I have a shower. I put on a t-shirt, jama bottoms and socks. My roommate comes in, top off. OK, maybe acceptable to do this.

 

What isn't acceptable is dropping his trousers and continuing the chat. I'm pretending to dry my hair and thinking. Is this a power move to kick me out of the room?

 

No, he just decides to wander about in his briefs.

 

If you don't hear from me again, I've been raped by the man in room 67.

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck my miserable life.

I'm on the ferry to dublin. It's an easy says work, however it's a shared cabin.

Last time i got lucky and the guy fucked off somewhere. Think he found a spare room.

Today, I am not so lucky.

I have a shower. I put on a t-shirt, jama bottoms and socks. My roommate comes in, top off. OK, maybe acceptable to do this.

What isn't acceptable is dropping his trousers and continuing the chat. I'm pretending to dry my hair and thinking. Is this a power move to kick me out of the room?

No, he just decides to wander about in his briefs.

If you don't hear from me again, I've been raped by the man in room 67.

Only had the suffering of a shared cabin with a stranger once. I found turning up at midnight pretty pissed so I fell asleep instantly worked a treat. Apart from seeing his bag in there I genuinely never saw evidence of his existence. That was on the old Hull to Rotterdam route on a seriously shite old ferry.

[Ghosty]

 

If you don't hear from me again, I've been raped by the man in room 67.

 

At least you aren't two rooms down.

[Aston Martin]

Only had the suffering of a shared cabin with a stranger once. I found turning up at midnight pretty pissed so I fell asleep instantly worked a treat. Apart from seeing his bag in there I genuinely never saw evidence of his existence. That was on the old Hull to Rotterdam route on a seriously shite old ferry.

 

I am on the 1993 Norbank. Which used to do Hull to Rotterdam. It has one room and no facilities.

[Tamworthbay]

I am on the 1993 Norbank. Which used to do Hull to Rotterdam. It has one room and no facilities.

Strangely it was 1993 when I did that route a few times as I was doing my Masters in the Netherlands. I am sure the ferry was left over from operation sea lion.

[Saabnut]

You’ve left bucketeer in charge of France?

 

FTFY

 

You would think I had learnt at my age, but would seem not! As he is less messy than me, things should be fine!

[captain_70s]

My yearly finances spreadsheet is looking grim...

 

 

Two of the people I know from college have just bought their first houses, £200k new builds, another is still saving up as they want something more around the £230k mark, they can all afford financed cars, gym memberships, Netflix, etc. I suspect I may be the group failure...

 

I don't even want a £200k house, I just want 2-bed semi with a driveway and a shit car, which is an inconceivable dream...

 

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

At least you aren't two rooms down.

 

why what's wrong with room 65? :mrgreen:

[Timewaster]

My yearly finances spreadsheet is looking grim...

 

finances.JPG

 

Two of the people I know from college have just got into massive debt, £200k crappy new builds, another says they are still saving up as they want something more around the £230k mark just to willy wave at the other two , they can't afford cars so they financed, gym memberships, Netflix, etc. All on credit cards.

See the green on my spreadsheet! I suspect I may be the group winner...

To quote Homer: Don't try to keep up with the Flandereses.

[New POD]

My yearly finances spreadsheet is looking grim...

 

finances.JPG

 

Two of the people I know from college have just bought their first houses, £200k new builds, another is still saving up as they want something more around the £230k mark, they can all afford financed cars, gym memberships, Netflix, etc. I suspect I may be the group failure...

 

I don't even want a £200k house, I just want 2-bed semi with a driveway and a shit car, which is an inconceivable dream...

I am intrigued by other people's finances.

I find the debt diaries on money saving expert forum very erm enlightening.

 

I guess that there are 2 solutions to having more green, more of the time.

 

An Engineer or Scientist would solve this problem by spending less.

You clearly have an understanding of your planned costs to have a spreadsheet.

If you want less red, then you have to be ruthless. This is often miserable.

 

An entrepreneur would solve the problem by trying to increase the income.

 

1300 quid a month is £7.89 an hour on a 38 hour week ?

Could you get a Saturday Job?

Could you buy shite and break it to sell. For instance (And I hope he won't mind me telling you) omegod buys manual Omegas and sells the gearboxes to kit car builders who can take any fwd 2 litre Vauxhall engine and turn it into rear wheel drive.

Or look at re-training.

 

Finally the real solution is to get married. 2 incomes of 1300 quid each is 2600 quid and 2 people can live on the same as one person.

 

This doesn't really help you, so I'll just say be proud that you know how tight it is.

Most people haven't got a clue.

[Cavcraft]

Best of luck to anyone who thinks getting married is a good solution to your financial problems.

[DodgeRover]

Son has got himself internally excluded from school for the second time in 2 weeks, any ideas on getting a 12 year old not to be a dick in school and actually follow instructions? Other than working one to one with him?

[DodgeRover]

I guess that there are 2 solutions to having more green, more of the time.

In a word hydroponics is what you need for more green more of the time, at least till the electric bill comes in and you have to sell it all..

 

Oh that's not the type of green you meant?

[Cavcraft]

*Unless you're starring in a re-make of Brewster's Millions.

[Craig the Princess]

I wouldn't be shocked if those buying houses had been given financial support from parents/grandparents.

 

Netflix is £6 month though, even I can afford that with my shit car habit.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Lady Grumpius and I bought a house in June.  Both of us are 30.  Most of the people in our road are around our age and work middle-income jobs.  We don't know anybody that hasn't had some kind of external support that's our age and has bought a house.  Especially in the South-East, where we are.

[captain_70s]

To quote Homer: Don't try to keep up with the Flandereses.

 

I don't want to, I just want to be able to afford the stuff I want. Namely a smol, shit, semi-detached house with a smol, shit, asbestos garage for my smol, shit car in an area where people won't hound me for being a smol and shit person.

 

Perhaps I'm just being grumpy and impatient. All my mates have been partnered up for a long while, I pay more in rent than any of them due to living alone and earn £10k less a year. Plus getting royally fucked over by location. I had to spend all of my student bursary/loan on transport as I lived 65 miles from the nearest college and I couldn't get a job because of living in the middle of nowhere and not being able to afford a car, and as there weren't many IT jobs in rural Banffshire where I lived after finishing studying network support at college factory work had to suffice and since then I've been stuck in that sort of role for the last 7 years.

 

I'm just irritated because I just turned 27 and in real terms I'm going nowhere...

[mrbenn]

You're still young, you're living independantly, you have a girlfriend that sounds to "get" you and you have three classic cars.

 

I'm not dismissing what you've written above, I'm truly not, but you don't sound to be doing too badly to me.

[captain_70s]

You're still young, you're living independantly, you have a girlfriend that sounds to "get" you and you have three classic cars.

 

I'm not dismissing what you've written above, I'm truly not, but you don't sound to be doing too badly to me.

 

I'm just a miserable old shit.

 

Although, I will say of my three "classic" cars, one hasn't got an engine, one has been in a field for most of the time I've owned it and the other is held together with pigeon shit and was bought because I can't afford to insure a non "classic" in Glasgow!

[nebuchenezer]

Just been outside staring at the sky, I can see many more stars than I have ever seen before in the southeast. Made me sad thinking about my hopes as a kid to be an astronaut. Made me even sadder to remember Challenger, 33 years ago today - Christ I am old.

[LightBulbFun]

My yearly finances spreadsheet is looking grim...

 

finances.JPG

 

Two of the people I know from college have just bought their first houses, £200k new builds, another is still saving up as they want something more around the £230k mark, they can all afford financed cars, gym memberships, Netflix, etc. I suspect I may be the group failure...

 

I don't even want a £200k house, I just want 2-bed semi with a driveway and a shit car, which is an inconceivable dream...

 

could be worse...

 

you could want an invacar!

 

if its any condolences?, I actually look up to you how your able to manage to live alone in a flat with just public parking and still own and daily 2 Old cars!

 

its something I personally aspire to

 

and im hoping I can at least pull off running 1 shite car, an invacar

[nebuchenezer]

I don't want to, I just want to be able to afford the stuff I want. Namely a smol, shit, semi-detached house with a smol, shit, asbestos garage for my smol, shit car in an area where people won't hound me for being a smol and shit person.

 

Perhaps I'm just being grumpy and impatient. All my mates have been partnered up for a long while, I pay more in rent than any of them due to living alone and earn £10k less a year. Plus getting royally fucked over by location. I had to spend all of my student bursary/loan on transport as I lived 65 miles from the nearest college and I couldn't get a job because of living in the middle of nowhere and not being able to afford a car, and as there weren't many IT jobs in rural Banffshire where I lived after finishing studying network support at college factory work had to suffice and since then I've been stuck in that sort of role for the last 7 years.

 

I'm just irritated because I just turned 27 and in real terms I'm going nowhere...

I grew up in a combination of the middle East and semi rural Aberdeenshire. I chose a route that had many good and bad times, I now rent rather than own, hate my job and am looking at the very real possibility of redundancy because I refuse to subscribe to the idea that the process is more important than the outcome.

 

Probably doesn't help, soz.

[Ohdearme]

Netflix is £6 month though, even I can afford that with my shit car habit.

 

Aha! But that's how they get you...you spend all your time watching Netflix instead of doing something more productive like fixerating or entrepeneuring...

 

'Autoplay next episode' will be the tobacco industry style lawsuit for Generation Z, probably.

 

 

Edit: Based on your follow up post the above seems a tad insincere.

 

If it's any consolation, I turned 40 last year and fully recognise now that I didn't really do much with the decade from 25-35 except piss what I was earning up the wall. I was doing fine but single, renting, overweight, in debt, etc.

 

The most important thing is that you can recognise what is frustrating you now. At the time I didn't so I just plodded along as a passenger until it dawned on me. Then I finally woke up.

 

I figured out what I thought I wanted and then started making small steps to make it happen. I didn't do anything too major, just started to do little things, like look at how much I was spending on food, cars, nights out. I started drinking a bit less, shaving, eventually, I even asked a lady out stone cold sober (she was my bank manager) and we are now married and have two kids, etc.

 

TLDR; you can do pretty much anything you want with some perserverance.

 

I changed my job, lost 5 stone in weight, got married, bought a house, got a dog, 2 kids, debts still here (because house) and I still drive shit cars but I'm a mile away from Mr Lost Decade now.

[wuvvum]

Son has got himself internally excluded from school for the second time in 2 weeks, any ideas on getting a 12 year old not to be a dick in school and actually follow instructions? Other than working one to one with him?

 

[Eddie Honda]

My yearly finances spreadsheet is looking grim...

 

finances.JPG

 

Fucking fine and dandy that spreadsheet. Two green boxes. Tis no problem.

 

/auldyinpatter

When I was 27, I rented a room, had 3 motorcycles, a knackered Reliant Regal and a couple of Reliant Kittens, and a 4k overdraft amongst other things.

 

17 years on: I still haven't bought a house and rent, down to one motorcycle, still have the same knackered Regal and a dozen other non-working cars. Oh and a trailer. Nae debt noo.

/auldyinpatter

 

Living the fucking dream so I am. All my mates have bought places bar one, who could, but can't be arsed.

 

Do I give a fuck? Naw.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Fuck my miserable life.

I'm on the ferry to dublin. It's an easy says work, however it's a shared cabin.

Last time i got lucky and the guy fucked off somewhere. Think he found a spare room.

Today, I am not so lucky.

I have a shower. I put on a t-shirt, jama bottoms and socks. My roommate comes in, top off. OK, maybe acceptable to do this.

What isn't acceptable is dropping his trousers and continuing the chat. I'm pretending to dry my hair and thinking. Is this a power move to kick me out of the room?

No, he just decides to wander about in his briefs.

If you don't hear from me again, I've been raped by the man in room 67.

[Aston Martin]

Sit-rep, I did not get fondled.

[BorniteIdentity]

Sit-rep, I did not get fondled.

Condolences man. Maybe next time xoxo

[Guest Hooli]

I posted the tax refund cheque for my Sov to my bank on the 19th, they promise to bank it the day they get it & the money isn't there yet. Looks like the pissed office have lost it then.

 

Great.