The grumpy thread

[Mrcento]

Just now, Crackers said:

I want to buy a particular car in a certain spec. A few months ago, when I was skint, there were loads of them about. Now I can afford one, they've all vanished off the face of the planet. Good good.

Welcome to my life ?

I see everything i want at decent money when i have none and no space, and the second it becomes possible, they all vanish within 200 miles, no matter how common or mundane they are.

And of course when one does pop up, they've suddenly increased to near classic status prices for no apparent reason. What was £600-800 on average suddenly can't be found for under £2500.

I've noticed things all come up in bursts. Even rare or specific specs of things. I think people, a lot of the time don't know what the car is worth and wait until someone else posts a similar one for sale and bases their value on that.

There's no other reason i can think of that you can see none of something for months then have 4 or 5 almost identical examples come up within a day of each other.

Potential pro tip=- Put an fake ad up for the exact type of car you want  and see if others get advertised off the back of it. ?

[Spiny Norman]

47 minutes ago, Mrcento said:

My microwave decided to spontaneously detonate in a blue flash when i opened the door, and a bang so loud my ears were ringing for 20 minutes.

Electric, it doesn't fuck about. ?

Just as an FYI, microwaves are potentially lethal if you go poking around inside them. They can hold a massive voltage charge for weeks after they've been switched off.
Changing the light bulb is fine, but they're the one domestic appliance you should take the 'DO NOT TAMPER' sticker on the outside case very seriously. They can kill you.

[bramz7]

2 hours ago, Crackers said:

I want to buy a particular car in a certain spec. A few months ago, when I was skint, there were loads of them about. Now I can afford one, they've all vanished off the face of the planet. Good good.

Easiest way to find a car you want is to buy another one, then they'll appear again 

[BorniteIdentity]

Bloody neighbours last night setting off fireworks as early as October.

Ridiculous. Who does that?

Scared the crap out of the cat who went beserk and knocked over our Christmas tree...

[Lankytim]

I took our old microwave to bits when it died, removed all the copper and added it to my scrap pile. It had been sat behind the garage for weeks mind...

It didn’t explode me, anyway. 

[MikeR]

just nearly lost the front end to some twonk who cant stay on the right side of the road !!

we have this "nice" little junction into our estate that a lot of people cant cope with , its a T junction with a bend in it ,

[Fumbler]

Well it seems sport is more interesting so Father and Brother Fumbler have pulled the plug on going to the Anglia car auction. Oh well... there's always a next time.

[myglaren]

There can't be that many Anglias to auction these days.  Haven't seen one for years.

[SRi05]

8 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Bloody neighbours last night setting off fireworks as early as October.

Ridiculous. Who does that?

Scared the crap out of the cat who went beserk and knocked over our Christmas tree...

 

[Bren]

I had the audacity to message a seller about a car for sale on an auction site - the reply consisted of "read the ad it tells you all you need to know."

I told him I would go and look at another.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

just nearly lost the front end to some twonk who cant stay on the right side of the road !!

we have this "nice" little junction into our estate that a lot of people cant cope with , its a T junction with a bend in it ,

Erm excuse me, you were going too fast were you not? Always expect the unexpected especially in zzzzz town full of old duffers

 

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Over here by law we must put winter tyres on from 15 nov to 15 april.

After a few months of looking i finally found and bought on sunday a second hand set of tyres already on steels for my car, michelin alpin 5 with more than 7mm tread for euro 190, i was very pleased with myself.

And the grump .

 

Today what shows up for sale even more local, aet of 4 steels with good winter tyres for only euro 120 or offers ! Buggger.

I might go buy them also just to annoy myself even more.

 

 

 

[DoctorRetro]

20 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Just as an FYI, microwaves are potentially lethal if you go poking around inside them. They can hold a massive voltage charge for weeks after they've been switched off.
Changing the light bulb is fine, but they're the one domestic appliance you should take the 'DO NOT TAMPER' sticker on the outside case very seriously. They can kill you.

My girlfriend's dad used to dismantle microwaves and convert them into spot welders. He was flipping lethal though! Running an electric awning from a car battery in his living room was one of his famous bodges

 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Over here by law we must put winter tyres on from 15 nov to 15 april.

After a few months of looking i finally found and bought on sunday a second hand set of tyres already on steels for my car, michelin alpin 5 with more than 7mm tread for euro 190, i was very pleased with myself.

And the grump .

 

Today what shows up for sale even more local, aet of 4 steels with good winter tyres for only euro 120 or offers ! Buggger.

I might go buy them also just to annoy myself even more.

 

 

 

Buy them then readvertise when it's snowing £££

[Wack]

Went to b&q for some white emulsion , fuck off 3 for 2 on all paint,  bollocks I'll have to buy 3 now, bought some varnish then spent 30 minutes looking at paint, daren't buy coloured emulsion because whatever it is it'll be wrong so go for valspar perfect white for woodwork

Open the tin and nothing , no eye watering fumes that burn the back of your throat , dip the brush in and fuck me it's thin 

Put one coat on the yellowed door and, yes it's still yellow , what a load of shit 

Go back and buy a litre of nose shredding  birds fall out of the sky if you open a window proper paint .

[Crackers]

Ooh, an attention-grabbing headline indeed in the local news.

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A Surrey borough is most miserable place in the UK according to government study

This sounds interesting, I wonder which area it is?

Oh. Oh dear.

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Surrey Heath residents gave the lowest score for happiness according to data from the Office for National Statistics

That's not gone well.

...but wait, it gets even better!*

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Surrey Heath was not only the least happy area in the UK, but also the most anxious. People in the borough put their anxiety levels the previous day at 3.9 out of 10, which compares to a UK average of 2.9.

 

Yeah, guess which bit of Surrey I live in.

And people ask me why I'm grumpy bastard...

 

article quoted from here

[Pieman]

When did the words "son" and "daughter" get replaced in our language by "little man" and "little princess"?

Piss off with your overly soppy simpering bollocks.

(No I don't have kids, before you ask, and I never will have any.)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, MikeR said:

just nearly lost the front end to some twonk who cant stay on the right side of the road !!....

Virtually everyone straddles the centreline of London residential streets now because SUV too wide or no spatial awareness.

[gm]

work related grump - I had to watch a christmas menu training video recently, nothing wrong with this, it's useful information, but some bright spark decided to play christmas music in the background and I've had sodding shakin' stevens merry christmas everybody stuck in my head for the last two days  it won't go away 

 

[TataBobu]

17 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

dismantle microwaves and convert them into spot welders

There is a polish guy on youtube showing everyone how it's done, I must confess I'm tempted.

[PhilA]

Bloody coffee pot has broken again, in exactly the same way it broke last time.

I think the material they specced wasn't what it has been made from. Looks like it probably should have been glass.

 

I think this one goes in the bin. I'm annoyed- granted the company furnished a new piece but it lasted 2 weeks and took 3 months to arrive.

Phil

[wuvvum]

On 10/28/2019 at 5:36 PM, Fumbler said:

Well it seems sport is more interesting so Father and Brother Fumbler have pulled the plug on going to the Anglia car auction. Oh well... there's always a next time.

From the ACA website...

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RUGBY, RUGBY, RUGBY. The restaurant will be open from 8.30am when the rugby will be playing on the big screen. Free tea & coffee for all early birds and if England are in the lead at half-time, free bacon rolls as well.

 

[Fumbler]

That's great but they have their hearts set on being here unfortunately.

[scdan4]

Have spent some time in the wifewagon for the first time. Return trip to deepest darkest South hams lanes Devon. 

Fuck me it's uncomfortable. Imagine a church pew attached to a lot of blamange. 

The only saving grace is it is pretty much because I'm not fat enough. The seats too wide to hold me so I slide left and right. On every undulations. Braking sends me sliding off the plank inspired seat into the footwell unless I grab on. 

I'm knackered and my bum hurts. 

 

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, Crackers said:

Ooh, an attention-grabbing headline indeed in the local news.

This sounds interesting, I wonder which area it is?

Oh. Oh dear.

That's not gone well.

...but wait, it gets even better!*

 

Yeah, guess which bit of Surrey I live in.

And people ask me why I'm grumpy bastard...

 

article quoted from here

Me too. Live in Bagshot and work in Chobham. I bet it’s house prices and crime doing people down.

although I can’t complain too much ...

[Crackers]

44 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Me too. Live in Bagshot and work in Chobham. I bet it’s house prices and crime doing people down.

although I can’t complain too much ...

The proximity to both Farnborough and Aldershite probably doesn't help people's moods either! ?

Trying and failing to work out where that pic was taken from? 

[davehedgehog31]

In car speak, when did the term "delete" become a thing? "badge delete", fuck off, badges removed. 

Another one, people saying "swap/swapped out", American pish. 

They can keep their bastardised language and the rest of their sick culture over there, the cunts. Apart from McDonalds, it's allowed.

[beko1987]

Yey random flat tyre with nothing poking out to denote any issues... Almost tempted to pump it up and see but the tyres so cheap anyway, and there's no other reason for it to go fully flat... 

The ancient cracked to fuck and quite soft spare is now on, which causes me much anxiety... 

Let's see if I've got enough on the credit card for a new tyre! 

[Stanky]

Tyre place might be able to find the hole and plug it for a tenner or so?

[beko1987]

Not my local one, theyll sell me a £60 budget though...

1 new rovelo ordered for fitting friday morning. It's the ultimate bastard really... I can't see anything visible on the tyre, but it has gone from fine to utterly flat in 5 hours. I could pump it up and see etc tonight but then id be into next week for a new cheap tyre... for £35 it didn't really seem worth the agro when I can rock up with the wheel in the boot and be in and out in 5 minutes, then bring tools to swap the wheels around at lunchtime.

Just need to see if the spare will hold out! Tempted to try pumping it up at home just in case but equally if I get home, I might get to work and back tomorrow! then friday morning it gets changed

Must do the spare one day too...