The grumpy thread

[Markeh]

Today on my way home from visiting family in West Sussex I decided to take a detour and visit a farm shop made famous by a certain Amazon series. Viewers of said series may note the episode where the shop opened and cars were being towed out of horrific amounts of mud by tractors. The shop website also points out that it's in a field and suitable footwear should be worn.

So of course I tried to visit in my ratty old trainers with no grip. You can guess where this is going... flat on my arse in the mud about 2 minutes after arrival. Managed to slide back to the car after scrounging some loo roll to help clear up. Thankfully I had a change of clothes in the car, which given the only thing not covered in mud was my hat was quite fortunate. Turns out the new Qashqai is not very easy to get changed in the back of if you're 6ft 4 and trying desperately not to make a mess of the inside or get done for indecent exposure. On the bright side, who should come barrelling past in his Range Rover as I was trying to get to my spare clothes but Jezza himself! Thankfully I didn't get spotted as I'm sure I'd have had the piss taken out of me.

Side note - I've driven from the north side of Nottingham all the way to Horsham and back with a day trip to Brighton in the middle over the past two days. In that time I've had to move out of the way of people and use my horn 4 times. I'm not saying the people of Nottingham have forgotten how to drive over Christmas, but every single one of these occasions was north of Trowell services.

Another side note - £17.50 to park in Brighton for 3 hours can get in the fucking sea.

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, Markeh said:

Today on my way home from visiting family in West Sussex I decided to take a detour and visit a farm shop made famous by a certain Amazon series. Viewers of said series may note the episode where the shop opened and cars were being towed out of horrific amounts of mud by tractors. The shop website also points out that it's in a field and suitable footwear should be worn.

So of course I tried to visit in my ratty old trainers with no grip. You can guess where this is going... flat on my arse in the mud about 2 minutes after arrival. Managed to slide back to the car after scrounging some loo roll to help clear up. Thankfully I had a change of clothes in the car, which given the only thing not covered in mud was my hat was quite fortunate. Turns out the new Qashqai is not very easy to get changed in the back of if you're 6ft 4 and trying desperately not to make a mess of the inside or get done for indecent exposure. On the bright side, who should come barrelling past in his Range Rover as I was trying to get to my spare clothes but Jezza himself! Thankfully I didn't get spotted as I'm sure I'd have had the piss taken out of me.

Side note - I've driven from the north side of Nottingham all the way to Horsham and back with a day trip to Brighton in the middle over the past two days. In that time I've had to move out of the way of people and use my horn 4 times. I'm not saying the people of Nottingham have forgotten how to drive over Christmas, but every single one of these occasions was north of Trowell services.

Another side note - £17.50 to park in Brighton for 3 hours can get in the fucking sea.

Ah. You found the cheep par cark. That sea is best visited by train.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Markeh said:

Today on my way home from visiting family in West Sussex I decided to take a detour and visit a farm shop made famous by a certain Amazon series. Viewers of said series may note the episode where the shop opened and cars were being towed out of horrific amounts of mud by tractors. The shop website also points out that it's in a field and suitable footwear should be worn.

So of course I tried to visit in my ratty old trainers with no grip. You can guess where this is going... flat on my arse in the mud about 2 minutes after arrival. Managed to slide back to the car after scrounging some loo roll to help clear up. Thankfully I had a change of clothes in the car, which given the only thing not covered in mud was my hat was quite fortunate. Turns out the new Qashqai is not very easy to get changed in the back of if you're 6ft 4 and trying desperately not to make a mess of the inside or get done for indecent exposure. On the bright side, who should come barrelling past in his Range Rover as I was trying to get to my spare clothes but Jezza himself! Thankfully I didn't get spotted as I'm sure I'd have had the piss taken out of me.

Side note - I've driven from the north side of Nottingham all the way to Horsham and back with a day trip to Brighton in the middle over the past two days. In that time I've had to move out of the way of people and use my horn 4 times. I'm not saying the people of Nottingham have forgotten how to drive over Christmas, but every single one of these occasions was north of Trowell services.

Another side note - £17.50 to park in Brighton for 3 hours can get in the fucking sea.

I thought Edinburgh was bad at £4.60 / hr.

[Soundwave]

Feeling like absolute fucking garbage after my booster yesterday. Everything aches, including the shoulder where it was done, I feel too nauseous to eat, and I feel simultaneously too hot and too cold. Had a horrible, restless night's sleep with exhausting fever dreams. Never had this with the first two.

[cobblers]

2 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Feeling like absolute fucking garbage after my booster yesterday. Everything aches, including the shoulder where it was done, I feel too nauseous to eat, and I feel simultaneously too hot and too cold. Had a horrible, restless night's sleep with exhausting fever dreams. Never had this with the first two.

I had the same experience. First two I was good as gold, but the booster made my arm ache like I'd been hit by a car and I felt rough as arseholes for a day or two.

The way I see it is there's no way the jab can be as bad as the Covid it's protecting you from, and at this stage it's not a case of "if" you'll get it, but "when"

[ruffgeezer]

Bought a new bigger toolbox for the garage at home to transplant my work kit into. Its bigger so why the fuck can't I get it all in properly? 

Having looked again, it's got fewer but deeper drawers than the old one. 

Fucksticks, I might have to have a rethink! 

[Pieman]

On 12/29/2021 at 7:47 PM, MikeR said:

in that case my Focus is well fucked ....   arnt you Nancy  ! ( derived from number plate letters ! )

My Focus is unofficially called Podge for the same reason, christened that by a friend because its number plate ends in POJ.

I tend to call it a few other names when it gives such frustrations as recalcitrant acceleration!

[Missy Charm]

52 minutes ago, Pieman said:

My Focus is unofficially called Podge for the same reason, christened that by a friend because its number plate ends in POJ.

I tend to call it a few other names when it gives such frustrations as recalcitrant acceleration!

Mine is called 'Electra' for the fact of the number plate ending 'OVO'.  Shall we start a named Focus support group?  @MikeR can join.

[Zelandeth]

Well that was fun...apparently walking into the city centre branch of a major high street bank (having eventually successfully circumnavigated their appointment system to get there as you need to book a slot) to take out more than £100 cash is a big deal today.  They "don't keep available" enough funds for me to pull out £1100 to buy a car with.  Most they could offer me was £300.  £50 less than I could pull out of a cashpoint.

God help any business trying to operate out of there...

Guess we are doing a bank transfer then!  I could piss around taking out the max amount daily from cash points and *just* get there in time...but finding one with anything in around here the last couple of times I needed it proved to be a massive hassle...so I'm just not going to bother this time.

 

I know it's more than you'd tend to wander around with in your wallet, but a grand isn't a lot of money from the perspective of a bank you'd think.  I guess they really are pushing to do away with physical currency. 

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, ruffgeezer said:

Bought a new bigger toolbox for the garage at home to transplant my work kit into. Its bigger so why the fuck can't I get it all in properly? 

Having looked again, it's got fewer but deeper drawers than the old one. 

Fucksticks, I might have to have a rethink! 

If you need to move it on, Tim... 😉

[ruffgeezer]

24 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

If you need to move it on, Tim... 😉

I know one of them will be going as soon as I have it all sorted out. 

[Dan the van]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that was fun...apparently walking into the city centre branch of a major high street bank (having eventually successfully circumnavigated their appointment system to get there as you need to book a slot) to take out more than £100 cash is a big deal today.  They "don't keep available" enough funds for me to pull out £1100 to buy a car with.  Most they could offer me was £300.  £50 less than I could pull out of a cashpoint.

God help any business trying to operate out of there...

Guess we are doing a bank transfer then!  I could piss around taking out the max amount daily from cash points and *just* get there in time...but finding one with anything in around here the last couple of times I needed it proved to be a massive hassle...so I'm just not going to bother this time.

 

I know it's more than you'd tend to wander around with in your wallet, but a grand isn't a lot of money from the perspective of a bank you'd think.  I guess they really are pushing to do away with physical currency. 

Nothing new TBH.Halifax needed two days notice for more than a bag 15 odd years ago.🙄

[omegod]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that was fun...apparently walking into the city centre branch of a major high street bank (having eventually successfully circumnavigated their appointment system to get there as you need to book a slot) to take out more than £100 cash is a big deal today.  They "don't keep available" enough funds for me to pull out £1100 to buy a car with.  Most they could offer me was £300.  £50 less than I could pull out of a cashpoint.

God help any business trying to operate out of there...

Guess we are doing a bank transfer then!  I could piss around taking out the max amount daily from cash points and *just* get there in time...but finding one with anything in around here the last couple of times I needed it proved to be a massive hassle...so I'm just not going to bother this time.

 

I know it's more than you'd tend to wander around with in your wallet, but a grand isn't a lot of money from the perspective of a bank you'd think.  I guess they really are pushing to do away with physical currency. 

I had a similar issue but asked for my daily cash machine limit be raised to 1500 

[barefoot]

On 12/29/2021 at 5:58 PM, cobblers said:

100% guarantee that any car with a name is absolutely shagged in on way or another. If somebody is mental enough to call their scruffy motorhome "betsy" they're definitely not going to do anything proper about the galloping rot in the sills and frame, and will just "drive around" the fact that it takes eight minutes to get it into reverse because the engine is falling out 

I may have mentioned this before, but it is my firm belief that anyone who names their car is an utter twat. 

Hippy new year to the fucking lot of you.

[Bren]

Tony Blair. Knighted.

FFS......

[Zelandeth]

That's the third firework of the evening landed on our roof.  Someone is letting them off in one of the postage stamp sized gardens that backs on to our back garden and is upwind of us.

They have been on and off since about 1800.

[Rocket88]

19 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

That's the third firework of the evening landed on our roof.  Someone is letting them off in one of the postage stamp sized gardens that backs on to our back garden and is upwind of us.

They have been on and off since about 1800.

220 years of suffering…….

[Zelandeth]

3 minutes ago, Rocket88 said:

220 years of suffering…….

Bloody feels like that long since I moved here!

Edit: Also, why do ALL current mobile web browsers suck?

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that was fun...apparently walking into the city centre branch of a major high street bank (having eventually successfully circumnavigated their appointment system to get there as you need to book a slot) to take out more than £100 cash is a big deal today.  They "don't keep available" enough funds for me to pull out £1100 to buy a car with.  Most they could offer me was £300.  £50 less than I could pull out of a cashpoint.

God help any business trying to operate out of there...

Guess we are doing a bank transfer then!  I could piss around taking out the max amount daily from cash points and *just* get there in time...but finding one with anything in around here the last couple of times I needed it proved to be a massive hassle...so I'm just not going to bother this time.

 

I know it's more than you'd tend to wander around with in your wallet, but a grand isn't a lot of money from the perspective of a bank you'd think.  I guess they really are pushing to do away with physical currency. 

That is wank, name and shame. 

[Billy - Medhurst]

Bought the dearest car I have ever bought - To last me a few years early november. Died Xmas eve while still out doing christmas things / buying stuff. Engines done the bearings due to oil / Diesel mix in the engine.

Money gone / Car buggered / Greif from other half / FFS Can it get worse. Yep Pc played up tonight too.......

[Agila]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

They have been on and off since about 1800.

 

42 minutes ago, Rocket88 said:

220 years of suffering…….

Are you sure it's not musket fire? 😁

[Datsuncog]

10 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that was fun...apparently walking into the city centre branch of a major high street bank (having eventually successfully circumnavigated their appointment system to get there as you need to book a slot) to take out more than £100 cash is a big deal today.  They "don't keep available" enough funds for me to pull out £1100 to buy a car with.  Most they could offer me was £300.  £50 less than I could pull out of a cashpoint.

God help any business trying to operate out of there...

Guess we are doing a bank transfer then!  I could piss around taking out the max amount daily from cash points and *just* get there in time...but finding one with anything in around here the last couple of times I needed it proved to be a massive hassle...so I'm just not going to bother this time.

 

I know it's more than you'd tend to wander around with in your wallet, but a grand isn't a lot of money from the perspective of a bank you'd think.  I guess they really are pushing to do away with physical currency. 

Yeah, Halifax fucked me over when I had the temerity to try to withdraw £1200 in cash all the way back in 2008, to buy a Cortina estate.

Apparently they needed like three working days notice for any withdrawal above £300 from the counter - so, no different from the ATM limit.

Fuck.

That.

Right.

Off.

I was later told it was something to do with the whole Northern Rock debacle, and avoiding customers marching in and demanding to withdraw their entire £25k savings in cash, there and then.

I now get around this ballache by only buying cars that cost less than £300...

(Or by using bank transfer, which to be fair is a lot less stressful than travelling with a huge wad of twenties.) 

[Rustybullethole]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Tony Blair. Knighted.

FFS......

This really boils my piss. Is it coincidence he has such a punchable face.

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

This really boils my piss. Is it coincidence he has such a punchable face.

How could want to punch William Hartnell?

[Timewaster]

44 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

How could want to punch William Hartnell?

The similarity to Saville just keeps increasing. 

[Timewaster]

16 hours ago, Dan the van said:

Nothing new TBH.Halifax needed two days notice for more than a bag 15 odd years ago.🙄

1990 I got a job right next to a NatWest. Ideal I thought as we were paid  by cheque at the time. 

Opened the account, deposited my cheque. Went round to the cash point and it would only give me £50.

Sorry, that's the max on that account, if you want it raised you have to write to the manager. 

So I wrote to the manager, who said No! 

So I went in, withdrew all but 50p and left it at that. 

Until I moved they were still sending me statements and thanks to the interest I now had 54p.

I wonder how much it has cost the twats to send out 30 years worth of statements?

[myglaren]

I expected a load of problems when I went into my local branch of Santander.

They were perfectly happy to hand over £3k but did ask what it was for and commiserated when told it was for a new boiler.

 

No fireworks around here at all, an unusually quiet night.

[beko1987]

26 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

1990 I got a job right next to a NatWest. Ideal I thought as we were paid  by cheque at the time. 

Opened the account, deposited my cheque. Went round to the cash point and it would only give me £50.

Sorry, that's the max on that account, if you want it raised you have to write to the manager. 

So I wrote to the manager, who said No! 

So I went in, withdrew all but 50p and left it at that. 

Until I moved they were still sending me statements and thanks to the interest I now had 54p.

I wonder how much it has cost the twats to send out 30 years worth of statements?

Somewhere I have my old Nationwide child account book... I remember using it at the Werrington branch they had to feed it into the machine and type away at the terminal. 

Last line is 1999ish and there was £2.80 in there. Not sure I can be arsed to send the book off never to be seen again to retrieve my £2.95...

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I expected a load of problems when I went into my local branch of Santander.

They were perfectly happy to hand over £3k but did ask what it was for and commiserated when told it was for a new boiler.

 

No fireworks around here at all, an unusually quiet night.

That's the same bank I just had this fun with, albeit a different branch obviously.

Fireworks here finally stopped about 4am.

[Rab]

I sent 200 squid into the TSB black hole..its in a holding acc. and was not received by whom i was attempting to pay..so they have my money..and can they be fucked giving it back...i feel petulant enough to quit the SOBs...