The grumpy thread

[puddlethumper]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

No never alone.  The Chinese have 3 operatives watching your computer and passing back the relevant secrets of the western world to the "party" 

You are never alone with a mobile phone.

[dozeydustman]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

I shared an office with a fully paid up member of the BNP for 6 months. 

I see on LinkedIn that he's been heading up the firm's China operation for 10 years. 

Hope* he's okay and up to date with his flu* jabs

I’d quite happily send to China the 2 blokes with whom I’ve been working just so they get some fresh* air.

I have never met anyone as racist, misogynistic and homophobic as these two. I daren’t tell them there is some German lineage in my family, they’d probably call me Führer.

Have asked not to work with them again.

[sheffcortinacentre]

You haven't met my old neighbour then

[New POD]

My 94 year old neighbour is a Tory, bigot, with xenophic anti European views. 

He has mild dimensia. 

I pop in every now and then, and remind him he thinks Brexit is stupid, and Homosexuality is okay, if both parties are consenting. And there's no such think as Benefit Scum.  I pretend that he told me that  all yesterday, in proper gaslighting fashion.  I occasionally take him the Guardian, which confuses him, because he seems to remember he used to read the Mail. 

Am i bad ? He likes the company. 

[High Jetter]

7 minutes ago, New POD said:

He has mild dimensia.

That might be contagious

[Cavcraft]

3 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

I’d quite happily send to China the 2 blokes with whom I’ve been working just so they get some fresh* air.

I have never met anyone as racist, misogynistic and homophobic as these two. I daren’t tell them there is some German lineage in my family, they’d probably call me Führer.

Have asked not to work with them again.

Two wrongs probably don't make a right etc, but when we got really racist drivers in at work one of us would say our wife was the same colour/creed/religion they'd just spent ages slagging off. The backtracking was a sight to behold,  'not all of them are like that/my old neighbour was Indian/French/half-penguin/etc, great bloke'

[New POD]

16 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

That might be contagious

I'm not sure if I know whether it is or not. 

He's having a stair lift fitted tomorrow. 

[Inspector Morose]

19 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Two wrongs probably don't make a right etc, but when we got really racist drivers in at work one of us would say our wife was the same colour/creed/religion they'd just spent ages slagging off. The backtracking was a sight to behold,  'not all of them are like that/my old neighbour was Indian/French/half-penguin/etc, great bloke'

20 years on and the delightful sound of reverse gear being scrambled for when I introduce the wife never gets old. It goes someway towards compensating for the beatings that I had for the very same reason.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

....I have never met anyone as racist, misogynistic and homophobic as these two. I daren’t tell them there is some German lineage in my family, they’d probably call me Führer....

...more likely they'd tell you how much they admired what the Führer did for Germany, and how Britain needs strong leadership,  etc.

[Craig the Princess]

5 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Two wrongs probably don't make a right etc, but when we got really racist drivers in at work one of us would say our wife was the same colour/creed/religion they'd just spent ages slagging off. The backtracking was a sight to behold,  'not all of them are like that/my old neighbour was Indian/French/half-penguin/etc, great bloke'

You are Stewart Lee and I claim my five pounds 

 

[anonymous user]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

I'm not sure if I know whether it is or not. 

He's having a stair lift fitted tomorrow. 

But lives in a bungalow?

[HillmanImp]

8 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

20 years on and the delightful sound of reverse gear being scrambled for when I introduce the wife never gets old. It goes someway towards compensating for the beatings that I had for the very same reason.

When I was about 16 I went out with a girl whose parents fostered kids. A lot of them were from Nigerian families. 

When I was out with them I used to get called 'nigger lover' quite a lot, which was quite an eye opener. 

One time Del was waiting to cross the road and a car slowed down to let her cross. She waved and set off but then the driver saw she was with a black child and literally drove right at them, she had to jump out of the way. 

Absolutely mental. 

[New POD]

11 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

But lives in a bungalow?

Dormer Bungalow. 

 

[yes oui si]

8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...more likely they'd tell you how much they admired what the Führer did for Germany, and how Britain needs strong leadership,  etc.

"...they were actually socialists, not fascists..." 

[dozeydustman]

9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...more likely they'd tell you how much they admired what the Führer did for Germany, and how Britain needs strong leadership,  etc.

Now that would not surprise me, though they were singing the praises of the current PM.

[dozeydustman]

11 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Two wrongs probably don't make a right etc, but when we got really racist drivers in at work one of us would say our wife was the same colour/creed/religion they'd just spent ages slagging off. The backtracking was a sight to behold,  'not all of them are like that/my old neighbour was Indian/French/half-penguin/etc, great bloke'

The more racist of the two won't acknowledge our Bajan driver and his son (mixed race). I think his tolerances to others went past that point decades ago. His brother is the total opposite and will talk to people then make judgement based on character not colour, race etc.

[yes oui si]

3 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

The more racist of the two won't acknowledge our Bajan driver and his son (mixed race). I think his tolerances to others went past that point decades ago. His brother is the total opposite and will talk to people then make judgement based on character not colour, race etc.

Private or council? I'm surprised that they have kept the cunt on for so long. 

[dozeydustman]

Just now, yes oui si said:

Private or council? I'm surprised that they have kept the cunt on for so long. 

3 months til he retires. And council. He doesn't say anything where he knows he might get heard; in the cab travelling it all comes out.

But he's a resident typical of my area. There is hardly any ethnic variance, most of the residents (as I have stated many times before) are gammons and giffers who read the Daily Mail.

When I lived on the outskirts of Bognor there was a bit more tolerance, but back home in Kent there was a huge population of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc background and most people got on well together.

[richardmorris]

And people still think hi visibility is a must to make you visible on the road. It’s no good if the muppets aren’t looking.

[andy18s]

You need to get hold an an old hands free mic,stick it in a corner and then point it out to him 1 day,whilst asking "how long has that been there?"

[Craig the Princess]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

And people still think hi visibility is a must to make you visible on the road. It’s no good if the muppets aren’t looking.

(Picture of smashed up police car)

How the heck did they manage that?

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

How the heck did they manage that?

My guess,  looking at their phone. 

[richardmorris]

Other grump, is that I was enjoying watching the good wife on amazon prime recently and was up to season four. Last night it’s all  gone and not  on prime any more.  Anyone any idea what’s going on?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Other grump, is that I was enjoying watching the good wife on amazon prime recently and was up to season four. Last night it’s all  gone and not  on prime any more.  Anyone any idea what’s going on?

Maybe allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against one or more of the cast and/or production team?

[UltraWomble]

People who sell shit bikes on facebook
at damn near full price with "NO MOT but will fly through one"

FUCK OFF YOU COCKWOMBLES

 

[High Jetter]

Looks like it's been 'testing the water' for quite awhile now. Do you think he's serious about selling? 

[UltraWomble]

23 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Looks like it's been 'testing the water' for quite awhile now. Do you think he's serious about selling? 

thats my pisstake ad that got me banned from the selling site - however here are some others...

 

[warch]

What made me grumpy was riding my Trip to work and back yesterday,  specifically back. I thought I had finally lost my nerve it was that terrible. The bit inside Wales was fine thanks to decent surfacing and no potholes, the bit just over the border was actually horrific. I couldn't ride on the hedgeside due to washed out sections of road and big potholes, the centre of the lane was so built up with mud I couldn't safely ride on it or cross over it in places and the other side of the lane on the centreline was rutted, including a few ruts and potholes hidden by a cut price resurfacing job that actually made them impossible to see. This was a main road too, not a country back road.

When I finally got home after a bollock clenchingly scary hour or so riding I realised both front and rear tyres were coated with slimy road muck so the impression I had of having no grip whatsoever had been caused by me actually having no grip whatsoever. 

[AnthonyG]

Was this road in Herefordshire by any chance? 

You used to get a physical bump in the car from the transition from the lovely Welsh road, with a surface like a billiard table, to the crappy cart track that was the English side. 
 

This was the A44, the main route to the Mid Wales coast....

[Rovorsche]

Went to use a battery charger this evening.
Set it all up under the bonnet and switched it on, the "wrong polarity/Fuse warning" light was on straight away.

Looks like it died last time it was used, the fuse holder is now a unified blob of plastic and the blade fuse wont come out with pliers.

As I have little tolerance for appliances that choose immolation over normal function, what could have been an easy fix no longer remains an option.
Its now proper fucked after failing a bounce test and remains where it landed.