The grumpy thread

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

  On 29/01/2019 at 22:28, The Moog said:

No photos??

I had a couple from WingZ who moved it for me. I'm trying to get sorted and get them off the phone onto my laptop so I can start a fleet thread - I've been a busy boy. Sadly I can't do anything from the office as external files are nuked, lasered, napalmed and then filtered - before being roundly screamed at to FRO - no attachments allowed. I'll get around to it as soon as I can. Collection threads planned - me leaving my passport in a hotel in Poland has poleaxed the start of 2019 somewhat.

 

  On 30/01/2019 at 12:05, xtriple said:

I have over 2000 'friends' on there (no idea how that happened…….

 

XXX - always has them subscribing dude - they probably didn't even check anything first - and are now expecting animal exploits of a totally different kind!

[chaseracer]

  On 30/01/2019 at 12:34, iainrcz said:

People with kids who assume everyone wants kids, and there's something wrong with you if you don't.

 

The reverse is also often true.  Each to their own.

[Parky]

Well...

 

New job going well until today when the bosses call a conference call. Turns out the new product I was taken on to sell has an issue and so they are withdrawing it. I wonder what will happen when my probation ends in four weeks time? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a door is pointed at and I am directed towards it

[richardmorris]

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  On 30/01/2019 at 18:04, chaseracer said:

The reverse is also often true.  Each to their own.

I love children. But I couldn’t eat a whole one.

[richardmorris]

On grumpy news I think I’m going to be asked to retire as 2cv columnist for the ccc. Made a mistake not reading a contribution fully and understanding its “ringing” implications. I just forwarded it for publication. Neither did the editor or the chairman proof reader, but I sent it in. I can’t remember if I took over straight from chaserace or if there was an intermediate first. Six years though I think, never missing a month.

[anonymous user]

I don't mind children, I never wanted any myself which is just as well as I'm a miserable, selfish, bastard who would not have made a good parent.

[richardmorris]

  On 30/01/2019 at 20:05, anonymous user said:

I don't mind children, I never wanted any myself which is just as well as I'm a miserable, selfish, bastard who would not have made a good parent.

We must be twins!

[bub2006]

  On 29/01/2019 at 10:46, DodgeRover said:

I was hoping you had come up with something! I honestly don't know what is goingvthrough his head it's almost like he can't relate actions to consequences at the time he is about to do something stupid. When he is thinking he's really a model kid

 

Meeting with the school on Thursday, hopefully they might have some ideas.

I've had numerous meetings at school and due to my exes ex fella who was well known for child beating he is in the social services radar. The social worker assigned to my ex is Terrible at her job and us gunning to have the kids removed. My lad doesn't seem to see the consequence of his actions though and he gets into the mindset that he is innocent and it's everyone out to get him and even when caught lying it's not him but someone else!

[iainrcz]

  On 30/01/2019 at 20:05, anonymous user said:

I don't mind children, I never wanted any myself which is just as well as I'm a miserable, selfish, bastard who would not have made a good parent.

I grew up with other people's kids as my parents were foster carers.

 

I enjoyed it, and do like kids.

I just don't fancy my own. I like playing the fun uncle, then giving them back all wound up like a spring to their parents.

 

I just find it annoying that some people think it's the only thing you're here to do, have kids.

 

They say ooh you'll regret it when you're older.

 

Oh well, I'll have to cheer myself up by spending all the money I've saved by not having any.

Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk

[chaseracer]

  On 30/01/2019 at 20:03, richardmorris said:

On grumpy news I think I’m going to be asked to retire as 2cv columnist for the ccc. Made a mistake not reading a contribution fully and understanding its “ringing” implications. I just forwarded it for publication. Neither did the editor or the chairman proof reader, but I sent it in. I can’t remember if I took over straight from chaserace or if there was an intermediate first. Six years though I think, never missing a month.

 

Why should YOU take the fall?

[richardmorris]

  On 30/01/2019 at 21:00, chaseracer said:

Why should YOU take the fall?

I am anticipating the fallout, lowest hanging fruit etc. My fault, I should have read , and more importantly understood that it wasn’t a simple engine swap.

 

In happy news I have put two people in contact over a Panhard 24ct - one in Lancashire and the other in cognac.

[purplebargeken]

Aye lad, that's the daft bit. We all get sick pay n all so why turn up just to act ill, do nothing & infect everyone else?

 

In the NHS you get hugely penalised via the Bradford Score in relation to sickness monitoring, leading to all kinds of warnings and such stuff. There is simply no recognition of staying off sick for a couple of days due to the risk of spreading the bugs. Ironically the longer you stay off the better it is for the score. It is the repated short sickness that gets you in the shit, just like what happens when people go in when unwell......... 

[Saabnut]

Took the Saab out to get supplies as the only working car until next week when my MOT man returns from working in Elgin 80+ miles away to retest the Disco. Saab has grinding brakes, droning wheel bearings and suspension so worn it looks lowered. Hit a lump of ice that had just fallen off a passing wagon, and due to the "lowered" suspension, it promptly removed half of the front splitter, under tray and assorted wiring! Duct tape and tywraps (the usual full* toolkit I carry) got me home but decided that was the final straw and repairs have to be done, so SORNed it straight away. This of cause left me with NO working cars until next week.

 

So, phoned my MOT man and I am driving to Elgin for an MOT tomorrow. WCPGW?

[dollywobbler]

  On 30/01/2019 at 12:34, iainrcz said:

People with kids who assume everyone wants kids, and there's something wrong with you if you don't.

 

 

 

  On 30/01/2019 at 13:00, colc said:

this happened to me.......refund took about 6 weeks...........

 

Did anyone else have that moment?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Talking about people that want kids...

 

Went to a concert on Saturday to go and see a colleague (former professional violinist) play in a local string orchestra with a couple of seriously respected professionals as soloists.  Was astoundingly good.  During the interval, I bought my colleague a drink and she introduced me to some of the group.  One lady, who was a bit younger at 37 (still a few years older than me!) started telling me about how much her kids had changed her life and how it was the best thing she ever did.

 

I said that I was very pleased for her and that kids weren't on my radar.

 

I got the usual response: 'Well, maybe one day you'll change your mind'.

 

My reply: 'Mutual decision, that one.  Would contrive in a very controversial manner'.

 

My thoughts?:  'You're a nice woman and very good at the viola.  Now fuck off talking about kids because I won't change my mind and if I do, it won't be because of you...'.

[Cavcraft]

  On 30/01/2019 at 20:03, richardmorris said:

On grumpy news I think I’m going to be asked to retire as 2cv columnist for the ccc. Made a mistake not reading a contribution fully and understanding its “ringing” implications. I just forwarded it for publication. Neither did the editor or the chairman proof reader, but I sent it in. I can’t remember if I took over straight from chaserace or if there was an intermediate first. Six years though I think, never missing a month.

 

Vaguely (and electronically) knew someone who wrote for them. If they are still there then you could set fire to your arse, sit on the managing director's prized lap top and piss in every flower pot going without losing your 'job'.

[Pillock]

Driving to work this morning, had a normal level of grumpiness about the amount of cars with a headlamp out. Remember thinking about how I've had this car nearly three years without a single bulb required.

 

Got in car after work. Guess which brand new warning I got on the dash?

 

In other news, petrol stations are arseholes who will charge you £9.99 for a bulb that Amazon sell in a ten pack for £6.99.

 

In more other news, the apprentice engineer who designed the replacement method for a BMW F21 dipped beam bulb can absolutely get fucked. Wheelarch hatch and working blind my arse.

[mrbenn]

  On 30/01/2019 at 18:37, Parky said:

Well...

 

New job going well until today when the bosses call a conference call. Turns out the new product I was taken on to sell has an issue and so they are withdrawing it. I wonder what will happen when my probation ends in four weeks time? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a door is pointed at and I am directed towards it

 

That's not good, Parky.

 

Could they attach you to another product? Fingers crossed it works out.

[mrbenn]

  On 30/01/2019 at 22:24, Pillock said:

Driving to work this morning, had a normal level of grumpiness about the amount of cars with a headlamp out. Remember thinking about how I've had this car nearly three years without a single bulb required.

 

Got in car after work. Guess which brand new warning I got on the dash?

 

In other news, petrol stations are arseholes who will charge you £9.99 for a bulb that Amazon sell in a ten pack for £6.99.

 

In more other news, the apprentice engineer who designed the replacement method for a BMW F21 dipped beam bulb can absolutely get fucked. Wheelarch hatch and working blind my arse.

 

Have a look at Shell (petrol station) as I got a new headlamp bulb for £2.99 recently. Dread to think what Halfords would have charged sans trade card.

[New POD]

  On 30/01/2019 at 21:22, purplebargeken said:

. It is the repeated short sickness that gets you in the shit, just like what happens when people go in when unwell......... 

 

Interestingly, if you look at the potential causes of Post Viral Chronic Fatigue (ME) - Yuppie Flue, lazy disease. You will find texts that suggest that people who believe they are needed at work, get ill, (usually helped by stress) but go back before they are really well enough.  The body never fully recovers and they get ill again, and they force themselves back to work whilst not fully recovered.  Eventually the immune system says "FUCK THAT - I'm keeping you down" 

 

My wife an Ex Nurse and then a Family support worker for the Stroke Association, truely believed that she had to work, because people needed her.  

One day she couldn't force her legs to get her to the door. 13 years of slow recovery.  

 

You'd think the NHS would know better and treat it's staff better, and find that they had less issues long term. 

[The_Equalizer]

  On 29/01/2019 at 17:03, Rusty_Rocket said:

Top tip- LEAVE FACEBOOK. It's pure poison.

Twitter too. Oh and most material things are superfluous.

[puddlethumper]

  On 29/01/2019 at 22:28, The Moog said:

No photos??

Didn't see it go. There it was, gone.

[riek]

  On 29/01/2019 at 15:28, BoggyMires said:

 

Kids just want to be rich when they get older, he wants to be a mountain biker as his full time job... that's it, nothing else, just mountain biking. Someone is going to pay him to ride a mountain bike.  

 

Get him to enter some junior races. The only way you get paid is if you're racing and winning.

a couple of good arse-kickings off some of the hard-training juniors out there should help straighten that one out.

[wuvvum]

  On 30/01/2019 at 22:24, Pillock said:

Driving to work this morning, had a normal level of grumpiness about the amount of cars with a headlamp out. Remember thinking about how I've had this car nearly three years without a single bulb required.

 

Got in car after work. Guess which brand new warning I got on the dash?

 

In other news, petrol stations are arseholes who will charge you £9.99 for a bulb that Amazon sell in a ten pack for £6.99.

 

In more other news, the apprentice engineer who designed the replacement method for a BMW F21 dipped beam bulb can absolutely get fucked. Wheelarch hatch and working blind my arse.

Flog it and buy an E21 instead.  Sorted.

[purplebargeken]

You'd think the NHS would know better and treat it's staff better, and find that they had less issues long term. 

 

I have tears of laughter running down my cheeks. The NHS generally treat the staff worse than a scabby donkey at WeWorkScabbyDonkeysToDeath Ltd. In the majority of cases (in my experience), the greater majority of NHS managers are generally fucking useless twats who shouldn't be left in charge of their own body parts.

 

For some bizarre reason the very worst of the clueless, arrogant and huge ego dickheads rise to the top in NHS management. It is very odd. There are the odd one or two who are good but they get beaten down rather quickly and move on, the void then gets filled with a galloping knob head 'I want to be chief exec by the time I'm 35' type twat. 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Checked all lights on all cars on Sunday as all operational. Headlamp bulb blown Tuesday on the touring... How's that for timing?

[SierraMikeHotel]

When I did my Unison rep course, there was a small group that were setting up a branch in their company: a well known food contractor providing canteen services in hospitals.

 

They had a number of grievances, but the final straw that led them to unionise was this. If you work in food preparation, food hygiene regulations state that if you have any symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea you should wait a period of time symptom-free (I think two days) before returning to work. Their company sickness policy put them on a disciplinary if they were off for - you guessed it - two days or more.

 

Granted they worked for a contractor rather than the NHS itself but I think it's reasonable to expect food prepared in hospitals to be safe to eat, and for staff working within the NHS not to be put in such a difficult position.

[Frogchod]

Work has been cancelled today

Grump is that my new* van is shite in the snow.

Wide tyres mean slight inclines are a challenge.

ABS is as subtle as a kick in the bollox making slowing down a thing of prayers.

[Craig the Princess]

  On 31/01/2019 at 11:25, SierraMikeHotel said:

 

Granted they worked for a contractor rather than the NHS itself but I think it's reasonable to expect food prepared in hospitals to be safe to eat, and for staff working within the NHS not to be put in such a difficult position.

In a sensible world if this was reported you would expect the contractor to have to change that or lose their contact.

But that isn't where we are.

[SierraMikeHotel]

  On 31/01/2019 at 13:14, Craig the Princess said:

In a sensible world if this was reported you would expect the contractor to have to change that or lose their contact.

But that isn't where we are.

 

Indeed - they had tried other routes before contacting Unison in desperation!