The grumpy thread

[brownnova]

And don’t get me started on Towyn! 

[anonymous user]

4 hours ago, mrbenn said:

 

And where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

Anywhere that I happen to be, so it can vary, just look for my big black cloud that follows me everywhere.

[Cord Fourteener]

2 minutes ago, brownnova said:

And don’t get me started on Towyn! 

Yes, best not.

 

[Cord Fourteener]

1 minute ago, anonymous user said:

Anywhere that I happen to be, so it can vary, just look for my big black cloud that follows me everywhere.

Have you been in my village? There's a big black cloud here blowing gusts and squalls

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, mrbenn said:

.....where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

 

38 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Rhyl... 

Except for 2/3rds of the inhabitants who are so high on drugs they think they’re in Benidorm. 

 

22 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Have you ever been to Kimmel Bay? Pretty miserable.

 

20 minutes ago, brownnova said:

And don’t get me started on Towyn! 

Jaywick, Essex?

[New POD]

28 minutes ago, brownnova said:

And don’t get me started on Towyn! 

Which one?

[New POD]

4 hours ago, Tim_E said:

I reckon either Stoke-on-Trent or Crook, Co. Durham. Apologies if you live in either...

I've been to places more miserable than Stoke. On Trent

 

 

Tunstall 

[anonymous user]

27 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Have you been in my village? There's a big black cloud here blowing gusts and squalls

I'm not sure, I don't think I have the only one today, mine waited until I parked the car so it could dump hailstones on me as I walked to the house tonight 

[Roobarb]

11 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Ohh how we (the wife and I) wish for some snow.

You are more than welcome to some of mine. 

We only had a few inches last night, but still meant I had to scrape the car off and then drive at 20mph below the speed limit all of the way to work. 

This is a shot from the Starbucks / garage where I’ve dropped in for lunch today...

I’d take wet and windy today!

[Cord Fourteener]

48 minutes ago, New POD said:

Which one?

Presumably the one near Abergele

[Jerzy Woking]

Received an email at 12.00 to inform me FedEx had delivered a parcel and obtained a signature for it at 11.56 I opened the email at 12.05

Delivery address on email was correct but no one had rang my doorbell. Says it was signed for by A. Ndy, but no card left for me to say where parcel is. Went to neighbours either side of me-neither were in.

Rang FedEx-very helpful, said they would check on my delivery and ring me back. 2 minutes later I get a call to say the driver will return in 5 minutes with my parcel. 5 minutes later, doorbell rings, open the door and handed package by FedEx jacketed person.

Missed a phone call 2 minutes later

They left a voicemail to say the driver had left my parcel with a neighbour. Complete bollocks

My grump is that the item was a side stand for my motorbike which needs 25mm cut out and to be rewelded. My mate chucked in his welding job on Friday to go back to glazing. How thoughtless of him!

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Which one?

There's only one, the other is Tywyn isn't it?  Which is also a million times nicer.

[Cord Fourteener]

39 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

There's only one, the other is Tywyn isn't it?  Which is also a million times nicer.

I think there is even another, but I think it is also Tywyn, Towyn is the English way of spelling Tywyn.

There are other places called Towyn - then something like beach or something. Welsh place names are not imaginative, they are just either geographical features or saints and bibley stuff so lots of place names are repeated over and over.

[Jamie]

6 hours ago, mrbenn said:

 

And where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

[Tamworthbay]

35 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

Not even close, Coventry? Leeds? Got to be top two..... but Guildford is up there, as is Staines and London is a shit hole of epic proportions 

[Jamie]

9 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Not even close, Coventry? Leeds? Got to be top two..... but Guildford is up there, as is Staines and London is a shit hole of epic proportions 

I'd say cov and Leeds were cultural highlights compared to anywhere in brum.

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, jamiechod said:

I'd say cov and Leeds were cultural highlights compared to anywhere in brum.

Shit no, Brum has improved massively in recent years. Cov was fucked by the Luftwaffe and again by the planners, and when they bombed Leeds they caused millions of pounds worth of improvements.

[Cavcraft]

Central London is fantastic, some other bits are really nice too.

 

'I'll come on Wednesday to buy it'

 

Ok, message me Tuesday night and we'll fix something up.

 

'Can't come Weds me lift let me down, is Saturday ok?'

 

Yes, but I'll need a deposit first.

 

'No problem, how much?'

 

Tenner ok?

 

'That's fine'

 

Ok, how do you want to do it, Paypal or bank transfer (he's probably 150 miles away)

 

'I only deal in cash'

 

So how are you going to pay a deposit first?

 

'I definitely want it mate'

[wuvvum]

I was in Gillingham yesterday.  The one in Kent.  That wasn't exactly an uplifting experience.

[Tamworthbay]

How did I forget Kettering and Corby? The twin towns of desolation and misery......... (Cov and Leeds are still worse though)

[Cavcraft]

There's a new book in the making here: 'Shit towns in shit cars'.

[wuvvum]

Chapter 1:  Billy Cavcraft visits Towyn in an Iveco Daily.

[Jamie]

11 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Shit no, Brum has improved massively in recent years. Cov was fucked by the Luftwaffe and again by the planners, and when they bombed Leeds they caused millions of pounds worth of improvements.

I  think it was wednesbury i got the mondeo from on saturday, it favoured sarajevo but slightly worse.

 

However, im certainly not being snobby - i live in bolton FFS

[Jerzy Woking]

I love Sarajevo. Dont think it deserves being compared to anywhere in the Midlands. Unless one of those towns hosted the Winter Olympics.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, jamiechod said:

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

I'll be retiring to Birmingham. My favourite city. 

[Jamie]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

I'll be retiring to Birmingham. My favourite city. 

my condolences 

[New POD]

44 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Coventry? 

Having being to Polytechnic there, I have to say that I loved the post modern concrete.

Someone told me they knocked down the 19 storey hall of residence that was priory hall g block. Shame.

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

my condolences 

Unfortunately motorcity is going to fuck itself by closing the A38 to private cars. 

[Crackers]

8 hours ago, mrbenn said:

...where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

Look, I've got evidence! 

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-borough-most-miserable-place-17162230.amp

[stonedagain]

The village I live in, they're knocking the houses down to build slums!