The grumpy thread

[puddlethumper]

1 minute ago, xtriple said:

Took Phoebe to a different vets today, totally different experience. Lovely lady vet, happy to sit with her/us and we were even allowed inside to pay! We could have waited inside but I am so programmed to sitting outside and waiting I just did it automatically. Happy to finally get a vet that gives a shit about the dog not just the profits!

Excellent news.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

Major grump today. The boat has run out of peanut M&Ms, it would not be so bad if they had any other sort of M&Ms.

Will have to make do with the funsize Mars/Snickers/Bounty/Milky Way but I am tempted to just off hire them!

Please don't - knowing my luck I'd end up dealing with the bloody loss of hire claim...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The second starter motor for the CX arrived, and once again it's the wrong type - for diesels, not petrols. Back it goes again.

How feckin' difficult is it to find the correct starter motor, FFS?

[mitsisigma01]

I'll go and give my bloke a shake up, I haven't heard anything back from him yet ??

[stonedagain]

On 8/9/2020 at 8:24 PM, iainrcz said:

Arsehole kids.

Not a fucking sausage all day.

I sit down to watch TV, the little shits come running out to scream and shout like it's 12 in the afternoon.

 

Piss off.

 

Anyone noticed I don't like children?

 

 

Spawn of the devil

[Tadhg Tiogar]

41 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

I'll go and give my bloke a shake up, I haven't heard anything back from him yet ??

Thanks, but he may not have it, though...

[iainrcz]

30 minutes ago, stonedagain said:

Spawn of the devil

I know I'm ginger, but that's a bit strong....

[puddlethumper]

Bloody BBC saying the train crash is in Aberdeenshire. No, it's near Stonehaven which is in Kincardineshire ya dingbats.

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Highways.  Dead straight, wide and barely any traffic (by European standards), but a 100km/h limit.

Fair, we have a few like that here.. most areas are fine but Golden Meadow is a 50 limit where the same road is 65, and they like to try nab you for anything over 50. Used to be highway 1 was the hotspot, 45 down to 30 and badly signposted with a cop hiding behind a building

[Timewaster]

On 8/10/2020 at 9:14 AM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Imagine how Vauxhall Vectra Mk.1 owners must feel...

But the mirrors are the one distinguishing feature. Without them they would be so bland that they would be one of those non descript badge less cars in insurance adverts. 

[Saabnut]

2 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

Bloody BBC saying the train crash is in Aberdeenshire. No, it's near Stonehaven which is in Kincardineshire ya dingbats.

Actually, in this (rare) case the BBC are correct,  Kincardineshire stopped existing officially over 30 years ago, it is now Aberdeenshire. I know, the crash site is about 4 miles from chez Saabnut

[puddlethumper]

14 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

Actually, in this (rare) case the BBC are correct,  Kincardineshire stopped existing officially over 30 years ago, it is now Aberdeenshire. I know, the crash site is about 4 miles from chez Saabnut

Bloody hell! didn't know that obviously. I was checking maps on t'net just in case and didn't find 

one with it missing. I was brought up there and went to school in Stonehaven. Oh well, apologies then.  

[Saabnut]

Many of the road signs now have "Welcome to historic Kincardineshire" on them now, so you are forgiven!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

45 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bloody hell! didn't know that obviously. I was checking maps on t'net just in case and didn't find 

one with it missing. I was brought up there and went to school in Stonehaven. Oh well, apologies then.  

If it's any consolation, my partner's Mum once recommended that we visit Danson Lido to cool off during a particularly hot summer's afternoon.  Only snag is that it closed in 1979...

 

[cort1977]

Chingford where I'm from became part of london in 1963 but many, many people assure me that I'm wrong and it's still located in Essex.  I tell them it's still spiritually Essex.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

If it's any consolation, my partner's Mum once recommended that we visit Danson Lido to cool off during a particularly hot summer's afternoon.  Only snag is that it closed in 1979...

 

My Grandad was Director of Parks and Gardens for the London Borough of bexley, and had his office at danson park, and lived in a council owned house. New  Bourne Cottage. 

[Tickman]

18 hours ago, xtriple said:

Took Phoebe to a different vets today, totally different experience. Lovely lady vet, happy to sit with her/us and we were even allowed inside to pay! We could have waited inside but I am so programmed to sitting outside and waiting I just did it automatically. Happy to finally get a vet that gives a shit about the dog not just the profits!

We have a great vet who is very uncomfortable talking to people but amazing with the dogs.

[beko1987]

11 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Chingford where I'm from became part of london in 1963 but many, many people assure me that I'm wrong and it's still located in Essex.  I tell them it's still spiritually Essex.

A job I used to have to do in the early days of being an admin assistant was find all the postcodes within 'middlesex', even in 2008/9/10

Eventually someone added a column to our files called 'former unitary authority' and I could stop that horrible job. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

A job I used to have to do in the early days of being an admin assistant was find all the postcodes within 'middlesex', even in 2008/9/10...

HA, TW and EN, I'd have thought.

[outlaw118]

15 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Chingford where I'm from became part of london in 1963 but many, many people assure me that I'm wrong and it's still located in Essex.  I tell them it's still spiritually Essex

My late grandad moved there when he re-married.

**USELESS FACT** "E" London postcodes are alphabetically ordered, so Chingford is E4, but Walthamstow which is borders it is E17 (alriiight, alriiight everythin's gonna be alriiight etc)

Some wankers, recently 

[Richard_FM]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

HA, TW and EN, I'd have thought.

UX as well for Uxbridge.

[Zelandeth]

Glanced at weather report. 17C and cloudy... excellent, ideal weather to go take the dogs for a walk.  Little warmer than I'd ideally like but fine enough.

Idiot... should have read the whole screen.

Ugh...six miles later and I've just had to change every item of clothing and take a shower.  The thing I hate even more than heat is humidity.

Again...moving down here was a dumb, dumb decision.

[cort1977]

1 hour ago, outlaw118 said:

 

**USELESS FACT** "E" London postcodes are alphabetically ordered, so Chingford is E4, but Walthamstow which is borders it is E17 (alriiight, alriiight everythin's gonna be alriiight 

I never knew that.

Dubious claim to z list fame: My dad was brian from e17's headteacher.

[BorniteIdentity]

The price of UK holidays.  

We always book last minute with someone like Haven.  Sister in Law works for Bourne Leisure so - on top of their last minute discounts - we get an extra 20% off.  We usually pay about £65-600 for 5 days away which is enough for someone like me who literally has no idea what to do when he's not working.

This year?  Double.  Literally £1200.  

Whilst I was swearing about it yesterday, in the middle of a biblical storm, the holidays we would have considered all sold.

Double the price for half the value (remember - no entertainment etc this year) means it's a no from me.

 

If the weather is fine I might do something stupid and buy a motorhome - or failing that we're daytripping and heading home each night.

Never mind eh!

[Zelandeth]

30 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

The price of UK holidays.  

We always book last minute with someone like Haven.  Sister in Law works for Bourne Leisure so - on top of their last minute discounts - we get an extra 20% off.  We usually pay about £65-600 for 5 days away which is enough for someone like me who literally has no idea what to do when he's not working.

This year?  Double.  Literally £1200.  

Whilst I was swearing about it yesterday, in the middle of a biblical storm, the holidays we would have considered all sold.

Double the price for half the value (remember - no entertainment etc this year) means it's a no from me.

 

If the weather is fine I might do something stupid and buy a motorhome - or failing that we're daytripping and heading home each night.

Never mind eh!

Not unexpected really, those places have always had demand based pricing so given that everyone who would normally have gone abroad with no expense spared are descending on them the prices have inevitably gone silly.

Motorhome prices have gone mental as a result apparently - had someone trying to buy mine yesterday and they were up to offering nine grand before I finally managed to convince them that I meant it when I said it's not for sale.

[outlaw118]

3 hours ago, cort1977 said:

5 hours ago, outlaw118 said:

**USELESS FACT** "E" London postcodes are alphabetically ordered, so Chingford is E4, but Walthamstow which is borders it is E17 (alriiight, alriiight everythin's gonna be alriiight 

I never knew that.

Dubious claim to z list fame: My dad was brian from e17's headteacher.

E1 Aldgate

E2 Bethnal Green

E3 Bow

E4 Chingford

E5 Clapton

E6 East Ham

E7 Forest Gate

E8 Hackney

E9 Homerton

E10 Leyton

E11 Leytonstone

E12 Manor Park

E13 Plaistow

E14 Poplar

E15 Stratford

E16 Victoria Dock & North Woolwich

E17 Walthamstow

E18 Woodford

E20 Walford* Olympic Park new district.

[Egrvalve]

5 hours ago, cort1977 said:

I never knew that.

Dubious claim to z list fame: My dad was brian from e17's headteacher.

Can I ask which school?

[cort1977]

Edward redhead junior in higham hill. He was the head for about 25 years.

[Egrvalve]

Ahh. We went to same high school but different junior. Edward redhead. Always good at football.

[strangeangel]

 

Good job I have a spare, eh? Unusually for me, this time I caught the clown that did it & she'll be coughing up for this.