The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

22 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Out of curiosity, what is the monthly going rate for a 3-bed detached bungalow up there at the North Pole?

I've been saying we wouldn't move but..... it sounds like a bloody lovely bungalow!  Just what we need really, and not that far from Inverness for access to half the family.  We could soon rent out this house.

[Saabnut]

25 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Out of curiosity, what is the monthly going rate for a 3-bed detached bungalow up there at the North Pole?

£695 a month plus council tax etc. No increases for 3 years. Might try for £750 this time but will take advice from the estate/letting agents. House is valued at about £200k so returns up here are not good.

[wuvvum]

Dunno - sounds similar to the place my parents were renting until they bought a house last August - they were paying £1150 a month ('cos North Somerset so Brizzle Tax) and the bungalow was valued at £425K (ditto).  My arithmetic says you're doing better than their landlady was.

[Cavcraft]

Renting houses out must be a sodding nightmare. It must be pretty much impossible not to go round with the lads and throw these twats out on to the streets, law or no law. I expect it's just the usual shit house chancers in life, preying on the kind before mugging them and moving (literally) onto the next poor victim.

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, Kowalski said:

I wouldn't worry about that, at worst you will get a warning off the tacho analyst company. 

That’s not the point. I was pissed off that 

a) another person moved a vehicle without making sure it was fine to do so. I was actually finished and was en route to the transfer station in well under my hours but I was hungry so my packed lunch Was deployed.

b) I shouldn’t have to use the sodding thing in the first place. It’s a company policy to use EU tachograph & driving rules despite being exempt from nearly all driving rules for the collection of domestic waste, which includes refuse, recycling, green waste and bulky items, whether free or paid services.

I do have CCTV on the lorry whoch will prove it wasn’t me who cause the balls up

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, yes oui si said:

Jibbers funking Crabst. 

I'd have their new address within a few hours and I'd be on their doorstep for arrears that evening tbh. 

You can't give an inch. 

If they're on benefits you'd get nowt as they have nowt; any judgement would be in the '50p once a year for the next 100 years' department. Waste of everyone's time. At least this crowd hadn't shat on the carpet and stolen all the pipes and wiring.

[Supernaut]

On 2/24/2020 at 7:43 PM, strangeangel said:

 

If it's any consolation the new album is utter shit, so shit that Janet Weiss quit over it, so you'll not be missing anything. I honestly can't think of another example of a band with such a stellar back catalogue that went on to curl out such a monumental turd, but there you go.

 

I have a ticket for the Manchester show on Thursday that I will not be attending and that hasn't sold out, so I have 0% chance of recouping the £30+ I have wasted,

 

Well, you missed out.

They utterly fucking rocked at the Barrowlands. There were a few songs from The Centre Won't Hold (which I personally quite like), but they also delved deep into the back catalogue.

Highlights were the pedal mashing between songs then segueing into the next without so much as a breath, standing on the amps while shredding to backlit strobe lights, and heckling the hecklers back.

[AndyIggs]

16 hours ago, Angrydicky said:

When dad had his Rover 600 we took it for its MoT at an independent garage, for it to fail on a few minor things, including front brake pads under the limit. Took it away and ordered the parts.

The other failures were correct, but when we came to change the pads, we were very surprised to find they still had loads of meat on them, they were only about 1/4 worn if that. I reckon they tried it on because we'd been in with the Zafira the week before and had paid straight up for them to do a full exhaust and a set of drop links.

Unsurprisingly, we didn't go back there again. They lost a good customer too as we had given them quite a bit of work until that point. I guess they thought we would have just asked them to sort it out!

Our QashQai had an advisory 2 years ago for pads being low on the rear and KwikFit put on the hard sell to replace them. We've since put another 30k miles and not a mention on further two MOT's, they are perfectly fine! Not been the same place again.

[yes oui si]

9 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

If they're on benefits you'd get nowt as they have nowt; any judgement would be in the '50p once a year for the next 100 years' department. Waste of everyone's time. At least this crowd hadn't shat on the carpet and stolen all the pipes and wiring.

I think you missed the subtext on that post... 

[strangeangel]

10 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Well, you missed out.

They utterly fucking rocked at the Barrowlands. There were a few songs from The Centre Won't Hold (which I personally quite like), but they also delved deep into the back catalogue.

Highlights were the pedal mashing between songs then segueing into the next without so much as a breath, standing on the amps while shredding to backlit strobe lights, and heckling the hecklers back.

 

Glad you enjoyed it. Hecklers? What was that all about? The reports from my friends in Manchester who did go said it was a bit meh, and nowhere near as good as the Albert Hall show in 2015 (which was a good gig).

 

Tried to listen to the album again last night, it still sounds like shit to me. Oh well.

 

[Cavcraft]

'You won't be doing much, Saturdays are quiet'

 

2 hours later...

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

19 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Bloody tenants! Myself andmy brother have rented out our late mothers house since she passed away. Fully redecorated, new carpets, new kitchen, new bathroom, it was all done 3 years ago and let out. First year all good, but after that it became obvious they could not afford it. Let to a couple with a son in his 20s with anxiety issues, her health has deteriorated. I gave permission for one small dog.

Over time 1 dog became 3, daughter and young grandchild moved in. Rent arrears steadily increased (to over 6 months) but they paid what they could, and I am too bloody soft. Went out of my way to help. This morning the postie arrived with a recorded delivery package. In it 2 sets of keys and a letter, without forwarding address saying they have left.....

They've probably gone off to worry a different landlord.

 

[Saabnut]

18 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I've been saying we wouldn't move but..... it sounds like a bloody lovely bungalow!  Just what we need really, and not that far from Inverness for access to half the family.  We could soon rent out this house.

Here you go, 700 quid a month to a shiter with fresh paint and all new carpets!

[HillmanImp]

Spent the day cleaning out the kitchen cupboards and under the bed in the spare room etc. Created 5 bin bags full of crap. 

Just took the bags outside to lob them in the back of the Legacy to take them to the tip and the boot appears to be broken and won't open FFS. 

Will look at it in the morning. Mrs (probably not for long) Imp will have to take them in the morning in her car, so not all bad. I hate going to the tip. 

[HillmanImp]

18 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Renting houses out must be a sodding nightmare. It must be pretty much impossible not to go round with the lads and throw these twats out on to the streets, law or no law. I expect it's just the usual shit house chancers in life, preying on the kind before mugging them and moving (literally) onto the next poor victim.

I've sold mine. Can't be arsed with the hassle. Last lot proper fucked it. 

I can't even go to places where I might see the old tenants as I don't trust my temper.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Come the revolution I'm going to introduce a new sport to be shown in place of EastEnders where wanna be chavettes that think the show is a guide to how to live in society are forced to fight each other to the death with the losers strung up from lampposts & Thier sterilised spawn breeding partners chained around them to starve to death along with Thier spawn as an example.

As I'm sick of being around these scum it seems impossible to escape them these days, the human race is fucked not the planet if these self entitled scum are the future of it .

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Blimey.

[eddyramrod]

On 2/29/2020 at 6:58 PM, Saabnut said:

Here you go, 700 quid a month to a shiter with fresh paint and all new carpets!

That's lovely!  Plenty of room on that drive to park a Cadillac and a Jag...

However, Mrs has vetoed, saying if we were to move, she'd rather move within Barrow.

GLWTRental.

[Saabnut]

5 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

What's the internet speed like up there? 

I believe it is OK in the village, my mother who was 93 never had it, but the tenants had it I think and never complained.

Beach and nature reserve 1/2 a mile walk away, was on the 3 mile beach the other day and there was no one else to be seen Village is called St Cyrus

[sheffcortinacentre]

Sounds great.

[Alex66]

Go to see a C2 chap on phone says it runs really well, yeah as-long as you don't want to turn,  turn right a new born could do it turn right and you need to be a power lifter. WTF has gone on there? it was like the power steering was bust only going right.  Well that was a waste of time, argh. 

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

That's lovely!  Plenty of room on that drive to park a Cadillac and a Jag...

However, Mrs has vetoed, saying if we were to move, she'd rather move within Barrow.

GLWTRental.

Barrow <> St Cyrus? Does she build submarines for a living? If not her priorities seem off-kilter.

[eddyramrod]

Don't forget we both qualify as senior citizens now, and neither of us is in the peak of health, so moving at all isn't something we would look forward to, never mind 350 miles away!

The house does look ideal, I have to say.  Our present house isn't, by some distance, but at least we own it outright.

[xtriple]

I am concerned as well as grumpy; currently washing all my bedding again as Phoebe has poo'd on it... yet again. That makes every day this week. It's not her fault she does it in her sleep and it surprises her no end, if she'd just poo and keep still, it wouldn't be to bad, but she wriggles and kicks her legs and consequently makes a proper bloody horrible mess. It doesn't matter how often I take her out  she wee's okay but it's a rare event (worthy of acclaim and salutations) if she poops outside. She's even done it in the car before now, that is a proper mess.

I really don't know what to do about it.

 

[Jazoli]

12 bore shotgun would sort it, or keep the dog out of the bedroom

1st comment was a joke btw...

[xtriple]

2 hours ago, Jazoli said:

12 bore shotgun would sort it, or keep the dog out of the bedroom

1st comment was a joke btw...

I know... at 5;00 in the morning it's bloody tempting! I know she can't help it and it's just 'one of those things' we are going to have to live with but it does get a tad wearing. She's 12 and a half now and has been sickly all her life, always in the wars (peritanitus, broken legs) and she has been a cripple for the last 6 years and just like me, she's getting worse. My ability to help her walk is deminishing as well so it's not a great situation. I wish I could do more for her, I long for the days when she was always running full pelt and falling in oceans because she's clumsy.

[FakeConcern]

This has happened again to my daughter's (used to be mine) C4 VTS...

Some people are just bastards...

[New POD]

On 2/28/2020 at 10:01 PM, Saabnut said:

£695 a month plus council tax etc. No increases for 3 years. Might try for £750 this time but will take advice from the estate/letting agents. House is valued at about £200k so returns up here are not good.

Yeah, return isn't the best. But if it were steady and you had decent tenants who pay on time it's okay.  

[jakebullet]

It's a small thing, but is boiling my piss. Train tickets that don't work.

Last September useless tossers Northern added "valid only via Wakefield" to my ticket, which is pointless as there's one line to Leeds, and Wakefield is on it. Since this improvement the return section always, and I mean always is rejected in the barriers at Leeds "seek assistance". So queue for the bored bloke who either thinks you are a retard who can't put a ticket in a slot, or a master criminal who's forging rail tickets.

Tried #northernassist on twatter, and emailing the email us about something fucked form. At first they're passing it to the relevant who gives a fuck department. Then they just ignore you. Short of going into the station with a fake bomb and holding the place to ransom I doubt I'll ever get the fuckers fixed.

[Daviemck2006]

This has happened again to my daughter's (used to be mine) C4 VTS...
Some people are just bastards...

Fuck that's annoying. Nearly need the whole side of the car painted to get rid of that. I'm sad for my old car too. Why are folk such dicks?

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