The grumpy thread

[mitsisigma01]

I'll try those back exercises, mines been shite for weeks, my GP sent me to the local hospital, great I thought, I could see the physio straight away.... No fkin chance, fill in a form and if you haven't heard from us in..... 15 to 16 weeks give us a reminder call ???

[New POD]

15 hours ago, GrumpyCat said:

 

Car stopped by Police on school run in Derby apparently. How on earth does a tyre end up like that? I know a lot of people aren't 'car people', but that must be obvious to anyone that the tyre is fucked. FFS.

Mackworth? Or Allenton? 

Probably works as a stress engineer on turbine blades and it trying to model early cracking issues on Trent 1000. Too busy at work to get to a garage. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Flat fucking tyre fucking on the way to fucking work fucking fucking.  Arse.

[Bobthebeard]

I realise that this has been grumped about before, but it made me considerably grumpy last week.

Called into the larger branch of Home Bargains nearby for some stuff. Stuff has disappeared and entire aisles full of Christmas things. Went to our local garden centre for a few bags of gravel and over half of the indoor bit is set out as a winter wonderland with animated polar bears, an animated Santa band playing and Christmas lights in false Chistmas trees covered in fake snow. This was on Saturday THE 28TH OF SEPTEMBER .

A few plastic skeletons around in the garden centre as a nod to hallowe'en. Which is still a month away. FFS. 

 

[barefoot]

Oh get over it.

We play the shops at their own game. All our gifts are purchased & wrapped, The cards are written, addressed and stamped. The food is all planned, the rellies have all been invited. We are totally sorted. I've started to do the weekly shop in my xmas jumper which really pisses them off in Tesco. By the time the 1st of dec comes round I'll be able to simply pop the cards in the post and get the pre-assembled tree out of its box. Then we can really begin to ENJOY the whole of the xmas month. We have treats booked for every weekend from afternoon teas, to long walks with pubs at the end, long walks with proper breakfasts at the beginning, there's even a knees up organised in the camper van, under the car port where we can give the new Propex a proper work out. The actual 25th just a formality.

Let me be the first to wish everyone on here a very Merry xmas everyone.

[Mally]

I used to do all that.

Now I'm alone, it's a plane to Benidorm.

Not the same, but a lot easier.

[HillmanImp]

17 hours ago, chodweaver said:

Me and the Mrs both did our backs last weekend... (get your minds out of the gutter) emptying a lock up (ours, I hasten to add). Worst I've ever done my back - still on nurofen three days later - worried it was permanent damage - until I did the exercises in the page linked below. Honestly - made a world of a difference, immediately.

https://www.healthline.com/health/pulled-muscle-in-lower-back

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I'll give them a crack tonight, ta. 

[Wack]

Fucking pension companies 

It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount

The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 

What a bunch of cunts they are 

[New POD]

27 minutes ago, Wack said:

Fucking pension companies 

It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount

The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 

What a bunch of cunts they are 

I'm sure you can pay an independent by the hour.  I'm not sure I'd trust any of them. 

[Wack]

The thing is what are they going to tell you for their 3% , yes taking 25% out at 55 will reduce your monthly amount, no shit sherlock

They can't tell you how much because it's "invested" so if Robert Maxwell is anything to go by you could be left with 75% of fuck all instead of 100% of fuck all

I really really wish I'd put every penny of it into buying a house in 1990 instead of a pension , I'd have been minted  

[Cavcraft]

Yep, it's an expensive thing is that pensions business. One place I spoke to weren't even interested in my pot because it 'wasn't enough for us to deal with'. It might have been fuck all to them, but it was a huge amount to someone skint like me. Fuck them, went elsewhere and my other pension fund will follow suit.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Yep, it's an expensive thing is that pensions business. One place I spoke to weren't even interested in my pot because it 'wasn't enough for us to deal with'. It might have been fuck all to them, but it was a huge amount to someone skint like me. Fuck them, went elsewhere and my other pension fund will follow suit.

My pension fund was decimated in the InEquitable Life scandal many years ago. Lost about £20,000. Many years later,  compensation was set at £260. I was tempted to use the cheque as toilet paper. 

[adw1977]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

the whole of the xmas month

It's not a month, it's 12 days!

[colnerov]

 

 I can remember when it used to be a day.

[Rovorsche]

If you remember the day you needed more Emva Cream/Baileys/Advocaat or any of the other Christmas only liquid sedatives, if only to spare you from "Christmas specials" or the relatives you only see at Christmas.

[Lankytim]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

My pension fund was decimated in the InEquitable Life scandal many years ago. Lost about £20,000. Many years later,  compensation was set at £260. I was tempted to use the cheque as toilet paper. 

My Dad lost his pension in the same scandal. His retirement has been ruined. 

[mitsisigma01]

WTF is a pension pot!!! 

I fkin wish 

[tooSavvy]

19 hours ago, Wack said:

Fucking pension companies 

It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount

The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 

What a bunch of cunts they are 

I looked at my Pot several years ago... I thought of the prospect of continuing to contribute until I reached 75... I got a 'mystic meg' pension forecast from my provider... ?

Decided that being made poor through my early dotage & likely sq root of FA "inflation adjusted" monthly income was a losers gig!!

I'm drawing it down and quietly floating towards my state pension...

£750k is a POT

10% is a Puddle ... Spend it, before you're too old to appreciate it

[Asimo]

Also horizontal with backpain this week.  (Overdid the chain-sawing last weekend)

And now some turd has jammed eBay classic cars up with spam, spoiling my morning browse.....

[sierraman]

On 10/2/2019 at 3:03 PM, GrumpyCat said:

 

Car stopped by Police on school run in Derby apparently. How on earth does a tyre end up like that? I know a lot of people aren't 'car people', but that must be obvious to anyone that the tyre is fucked. FFS.

People always have something more important to spend their money on. I mean a pair of new tyres for that, what we talking for some budgets? £70 for the pair? I don’t buy it that they’ve not seen it. I can see it now it’ll be that they can’t afford the £70 for the tyres but can afford £25 for a takeaway. Priorities all to cock. Hopefully it’ll have been impounded and another idiot off the road. 

[Rovorsche]

Fiddle with the advanced search options

search for "classic car -rystr-32" under cars to reduce the turd count to normal

 

How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery

[Tadhg Tiogar]

19 minutes ago, Rovorsche said:

Fiddle with the advanced search options

.....How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery

I notice Chinese traders are very adept at search and browse manipulation.  Their tat pops up almost everywhere on eBay now. 

[mitsisigma01]

20 minutes ago, Rovorsche said:

Fiddle with the advanced search options

search for "classic car -rystr-32" under cars to reduce the turd count to normal

 

How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery

Or is it an alias of Mr & Mrs Six Cyl, they've got at least 600 cars ?

[Floatylight]

Fiddle with the advanced search options
search for "classic car -rystr-32" under cars to reduce the turd count to normal
 
How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery

Account is probably hacked and doing the "pay by bank transfer and I'll deliver it to you" scam, loads of it about with VW T5's, camper vans and the like..

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[Crackers]

4 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Account is probably hacked and doing the "pay by bank transfer and I'll deliver it to you" scam, loads of it about with VW T5's, camper vans and the like..

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Nearly got done with that on a suspiciously cheap V8 Defender once.

[Burnside]

Getting the distinct feeling, I've been fucked over royally with a Fiat Punto that I recently brought.

Thrid gear started crunching every time it's selected on the way home. So after some internet searching and speaking to a local Fiat specialist. It looks like a used box / rebuild is needed.

Then today after changing the oil. Which thank's to Fiat putting the oil filter too close to the block. Ment my oil filter removal tool wouldn't fit. Cue a hammer and screwdriver, plus swearing.

I thankfully got that all sorted and back togther. Then got the engine started and now the bastard thing smoking it arse off! 

 

 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

All that sidewall damage will have been caused mounting curbs outside school.

[cort1977]

On 10/3/2019 at 2:06 PM, Wack said:

 

The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 

What a bunch of cunts they are 

Is that new? I'm sure I read just recently that loads of people weren't getting advice and just taking it out. Of course that might be why they have changed it. Anyway try your absolute best to avoid that, the bastards have had 40 years worth of fees to mismanagement your fund, don't give them any more.

 

[fairkens]

That tyre looks like a transit connect to me, so I'm going to say it's because van driver

[SiC]

8 minutes ago, fairkens said:

That tyre looks like a transit connect to me, so I'm going to say it's because van driver

It's a Zafira MK1 (unsurprisingly). 

MPVs of all varieties seem to be the most non looked after vehicles on the road. Which is bizarre considering they are usually carrying the most liable to damage cargo of most vehicles.