The grumpy thread

[Mally]

There are 9 different types of jeans it seems.

Never buy skinny.

[beko1987]

On 12/6/2019 at 7:26 PM, LightBulbFun said:

it does remind me when I was drawing cash from the cash machine to pay for REV, I was a bit worried if the bank would get suspicious, as I can only imagine how they would of reacted if I got asked and I (truthly!) told them "to buy an invacar!"

Id had my dad pick me up and drive me to @ruffgeezer to buy the silver laguna. We got to Spalding, dad on about mile 220, and I popped to santander. The feel of oh shit as the cashpoint just returned my card could be smelled.

Luckily the one next to it worked

[SiC]

3 hours ago, xtriple said:

My jeans have holes in the knees (mainly 'cos I keep falling over) and so I have had to buy new jeans.

No you don't, it's back in fashion again! This is useful as I've worn a set of knee holes into my nice Levi's. Mrs SiC was going to throw them out as apparently this means they are worn out, however I'm just being fashionable* and looking after the environment by continuing to get use out of them... 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

....I've got piles....

Believe me, I've been there. Needed surgery eventually.

[Split_Pin]

Sorry to have to do this, but I am really hacked the fuck off. It's more annoying because it all boils down to a little diecast car that's only a few quid.

In the Shite in Miniature II thread there is always a good deal of selling and swapping going on and has been for years. It's great and is pretty much my primary source of model cars now. All carried out amongst trusted shiters and up until now everyone has been absolutely honourable with no bother.

On 22nd November I posted up some Matchbox cars for sale and these were claimed on the thread.  However since that time, despite my repeated but polite attempts to complete the transaction, including provision of Paypal details and promises to the contrary, the buyer has wasted my time and failed to complete the deal. Now I am stuck with models which I feel I can't sell to anyone else because others can see that they have been claimed on the thread.

In isolation I wouldn't have ripped my knitting over such a small issue however I was going to sell fair few more diecast on here in January but now I feel that I can't do that anymore. The money would have been nice too. I could go to ebay but its too much hassle and of course it costs more to do it that way.

This is a regular poster on here and I am surprised and now thoroughly grumpy about it all.

Good day.

 

[Mally]

Understand the grump, but everyone is not as fastidious as yourself.

People can be lackadaisical, forgetful, uncaring........ It's part of life.

Stick them up for sale again.

If nothing else it will alert people to who the non payer is.

 

[taxi paul]

Yes I agree . Put them up for sale again. It is very strange for this place but can happen. 

[twosmoke300]

Fuck that ! Name n shame time !!!

 

 

Its not me is it ? ?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I bet I'm not the only one who just checked their inbox !  Seems it's not me.

I do sometimes forget I've entered a Roffle, especially if it goes on for ages and have needed a kick up the arse by PM to pay up before now.

[brownnova]

Yeah put them back up. The original ‘buyer’ had their chance.  They blew it. 

[Fumbler]

Micra's tyres are letting out air. I think their age and the recent cold weather has finally got to them. They're cracked like crazy!

[Saabnut]

Was outside doing things as it was sunny and dry for a change. It started raining so decided as I was wet I would continue. It is now horizontal sleet so sod that! Time for tea.

[Timewaster]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

the buyer has wasted my time

*checks inbox* phew. 

[clayts450]

Pulled into Sainsbury's forecourt to feed the 820, second time since I won it. Fuel flap won't open this time, however. Had to slink off like a criminal, empty-tanked. Right faff to sort this out involving rear seat removal, but CBA today so I've sulkily parked it outside the house where it'll join the 'off the road' on-roader which is also on the naughty step due to a swollen rad hose. 

I also giffer-reversed the 620 into a post yesterday and damaged some  bumper paintwork (and yes, the tail light was already busted before you ask). 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

From memory there was an internal  release , in the boot on the 800 , of course this was when they were new, so probably long snapped off or otherwise broken.  

[strangeangel]

9 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Sorry to have to do this, but I am really hacked the fuck off. It's more annoying because it all boils down to a little diecast car that's only a few quid.

In the Shite in Miniature II thread there is always a good deal of selling and swapping going on and has been for years. It's great and is pretty much my primary source of model cars now. All carried out amongst trusted shiters and up until now everyone has been absolutely honourable with no bother.

On 22nd November I posted up some Matchbox cars for sale and these were claimed on the thread.  However since that time, despite my repeated but polite attempts to complete the transaction, including provision of Paypal details and promises to the contrary, the buyer has wasted my time and failed to complete the deal. Now I am stuck with models which I feel I can't sell to anyone else because others can see that they have been claimed on the thread.

In isolation I wouldn't have ripped my knitting over such a small issue however I was going to sell fair few more diecast on here in January but now I feel that I can't do that anymore. The money would have been nice too. I could go to ebay but its too much hassle and of course it costs more to do it that way.

This is a regular poster on here and I am surprised and now thoroughly grumpy about it all.

Good day.

 

 

Get them re-listed! While the vast majority of 'shiters are lovely, honourable folks, there are people on here who will cheerfully tell you fantastical stories and waste your time where buying and selling are concerned - I don't see why you should be inconvenienced by trying to hide the identity of one of those.

[xtriple]

I have been hiding indoors all day due to rain, Chester has been giving me 'the look' as he wants to go out but open the door and he just sits in the doorway looking at the rain - he doesn't like getting wet. I waited until it actually stopped persisting down and dashed out (well, you know) with the dog. We got as far away as it was ever going to be on a trot round the block job when the heavens opened and it absolutely HAMMERED down. Within a fifth of a second we were both drenched.

 

[davehedgehog31]

Christmas, a celebration of rampant consumerism. 

I find the waste disgusting. I find the pressure of achieving a "perfect" Christmas day totally suffocating. 

Millions of pounds wasted, untold amounts of stress inflicted on people in aid of a single day of shallow, vapid one upmanship. 

About time we packed the entire fucking thing in.

[Spiny Norman]

I work in retail so we get the full 'Jingle Bells' experience over the store radio and some of the less grumpy staff members wearing Christmas jumpers, it's hateful.

My best ever Christmas as an adult was when I was working in a bar/restaurant and volunteered to do the whole day from 10 till midnight, on double time with two sittings for dinner which meant two lots of tips and two Christmas dinners. I got more than a week's pay and free drinks for days afterwards.
 

[BorniteIdentity]

Cool. “Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine™️.” It’s my favourite time of the year, and I hope it remains so forever.

Grump? I’ve had to replace my third uPVC window handle in as many years. Am I a brute, or just very unlucky? My father had windows 22 years ago and not a single problem. I reckon these are about 10.

Grin? The fix is £7.99 and I feel like Dick from “Escape to the Chateau” any time I fix something around the house.

[Split_Pin]

I love Christmas and always have done.

Ignore the consumerism and make your own joy.

[clayts450]

1 hour ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Christmas, a celebration of rampant consumerism. 

I find the waste disgusting. I find the pressure of achieving a "perfect" Christmas day totally suffocating. 

Millions of pounds wasted, untold amounts of stress inflicted on people in aid of a single day of shallow, vapid one upmanship. 

About time we packed the entire fucking thing in.

You need to join my family, Dave - my parents, my sister and I gave it up years ago and we're all the better for it. Occasionally (every three or four years), however, we weaken and do a 'spend 10 quid on each family member, 10 items from Poundland', so we end up with a pile of wrapped tat to open. Did it last year, so we're doing fuck all again this year.

[bah humbug]Other than that, Christmas can get in the sea - the only thing it's good for is a couple of days off work and a few early finishes.[/humbug]

[danthecapriman]

10 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I love Christmas and always have done.

Ignore the consumerism and make your own joy.

Must admit, as much as I absolutely fucking detest winter with a burning hatred, the Christmas/new year week is pretty good.

I don’t get sucked into the whole ‘buy buy buy’ bollocks. I just get people something they want or can use thats not just some crap bought for the sake of it, even if it is just a gift card or whatever and that’s that. I don’t really want anything myself either.

Its just nice to have some time off work, have a nice dinner on a few of the days and spend time with my family. Good enough for me.

[LeahStornes]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

 

Its just nice to have some time off work, have a nice dinner on a few of the days and spend time with my family. Good enough for me.

Yeah, that's how it is for us.  The week between Christmas and New Year is the laziest of the year

Nothing to do and all week to do it - best holiday of the year.

[Wack]

Been getting a bit of the insomnia of late so been staying up as late as I can so I'm knackered before I go to bed

Gave it a go at 11:20pm 

11:30pm the wind blew the bin over so I had to go and sort that out so fucking freezing now , got back in bed and 10 minutes later just as I was nodding off some twat misdials my number and it rings twice before he realises it 

Fuck me,  I might hit myself in the nuts for the hat trick 

[Rovorsche]

Spent much of this afternoon undoing four bolts that havent been moved for potentially 26 years.
Three were fine, the last one had read the book "How to be a complete Bastard" and released a board game of the same name as a follow up.
Ended up drifting it off a stud as all threads were a distant memory but it would still not release any other way.

But it did come off, the downpipe was out of the way and I could get at the lower mount that had stripped and extract the bolt ready for a bit of Heli-Coil magic, best I clean up these threads.
Bollocks, the threads are full of thread repair insert already.

Update: The thread repair seems have been a shonky insert that left plenty of meat for a Helicoil to snuggle into and its fixed once I get hold of a new stud.

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

In my state of New South Wales they are installing roadside cameras to catch people using their phones whilst driving, one was installed near me on the major highway through town.

My grump is that some lowlife scum had vandalised them, completely destroyed.

Distracted drivers on their phones are some of the most dangerous people on the road and the police/government are trying to stop them with these new cameras, but someone obviously thinks that this reckless driving behaviour is fine and they should not be punished for it.

I hope they catch whoever destroyed this camera and punish them severely.

[Eddie Honda]

Meh. They ought to employ proper rozzers on the street.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

In my state of New South Wales they are installing roadside cameras to catch people using their phones whilst driving, one was installed near me on the major highway through town.

My grump is that some lowlife scum had vandalised them, completely destroyed.

... someone obviously thinks that this reckless driving behaviour is fine and they should not be punished for it...

...and they're probably not the only one. Over here, there are plenty of people who think it's acceptable. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

.....Grump? I’ve had to replace my third uPVC window handle in as many years. Am I a brute, or just very unlucky? .....

This is a common failure. The thing is made of an impure alloy - mazak, similar to the stuff used for diecast models - on the cheap. Eventually it corroded and fractures.