The grumpy thread

[tooSavvy]

13 hours ago, taxi paul said:

Why do people sit at a red light and ride the clutch edging forward inches at a time. Then the light changes to green and they don't move ? 

Ha Ha....  I sit at lights in drive (.. on the brakes) Green= I hit GO PEDAL like a 6" Brad 🤪.

[omegod]

13 hours ago, taxi paul said:

Why do people sit at a red light and ride the clutch edging forward inches at a time. Then the light changes to green and they don't move ? 

If this was in Huyton and  it was a black Focus I apolgise on behalf of both my wife and the clutch ! 

[Remspoor]

On 1/22/2022 at 7:24 PM, wuvvum said:

It is true.

https://motor.elpais.com/conducir/una-multa-de-hasta-200-euros-por-conducir-con-el-abrigo-puesto/

https://www.autofacil.es/radares-multas/multa-dgt-conducir-abrigo/298879.html

[Timewaster]

On 22/01/2022 at 06:43, New POD said:

Grumpy. Partly my own fault. Since starting this job in August, I have gradually put weight on. 

Why do I have zero self control. 

There's cakes in the office. I eat them.

There's biscuits in a meeting. I take 5. 

There's a Friday morning breakfast run, I have the big one. 

There's sugar on my cereals and in my coffee. 

There's a snack machine waiting to.ambush me.

There's a sandwich van that does warm pies. 

There's a couple of crumpets in the freezer that I can snaffle whilst the oven cooks my tea. There's a supper of cornflakes before bed. 

I could go for a walk at lunch time, but I sit and look at the internet. 

In the evenings I just slob out in from of the telly. 

5 months and I've put on 1.5 stone.  

Wife is also not happy.  I had a heart attack in 2020 and she rightly thinks I'm a bastard for not taking control of this addiction. 

She's right. I just need to eat 3 sensible sized meals a day, no pies, no cakes, no supper,  no sugar, and do a little exercise and I could be a different shape. And at much less risk.  

What is fucking wrong with my brain, that does the exact opposite. 

Greed. Why....? Discuss.....

Note to self .... just do what you know to be right.....

To battle the snack machines and food vans I made sure I didn't have any money on me. Leave it in the car or just don't carry any on a work day. 

If your office is anything like ours, tell one or two people (especially women) you are on a diet and need to lose a bit for your health and you will get bollocked for the cakes and biscuits. 

Is work walking distance?  Or somewhere safe to park the car half a mile away? 

[New POD]

2 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

To battle the snack machines and food vans I made sure I didn't have any money on me. Leave it in the car or just don't carry any on a work day. 

If your office is anything like ours, tell one or two people (especially women) you are on a diet and need to lose a bit for your health and you will get bollocked for the cakes and biscuits. 

Is work walking distance?  Or somewhere safe to park the car half a mile away? 

Walk you say ? 

I will walk around the reservoir every lunch time. 

But walk to work ?  No.

I'd rather drive. 

[EML]

Some bollocks has decided my 406 didn't need its drivers side mirror and kicked it off this afternoon. 😠

The drivers side was parked close to the fence on the land next to my house.

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Did they have 3 doors then?

No being sarcastic

[cobblers]

HAPPY MONDAY MORNING EVERYONE

 

At least the tyre was 90% dead anyway, I suppose.

[New POD]

On 22/01/2022 at 09:40, Floatylight said:

I've struggled with this for years, before I met MrsFL I weighed 16 stone, something clicked in my brain and I lost 5 stone in 8 months, felt great, met Mrs FL and over next 15yrs put over 8 stone on, tried loads of things but just could not control myself.  Just started Slimming World and something seems to have clicked again,  seems dead easy to lose weight after years of struggle, hope I can keep it up.

The groups do help, having a set system to follow along with the accountability element seems to help me..

This is next to the coffee machine. 

I am telling myself that the morbidly obese woman who bought this in, to celebrate some insignificant event in her life, has no great love of food.  Kirkland cakes from CostCo are not worth shitting on.  

This time last week i would have already consumed 1000 calories.  

[Floatylight]

25 minutes ago, New POD said:

This is next to the coffee machine. 

I am telling myself that the morbidly obese woman who bought this in, to celebrate some insignificant event in her life, has no great love of food.  Kirkland cakes from CostCo are not worth shitting on.  

This time last week i would have already consumed 1000 calories.  

Yep, I'd have been all over that, probably of sneaked a few over the day.  Stay strong..

[Remspoor]

On 1/22/2022 at 7:24 PM, wuvvum said:

 Another one for you.....Here in Spain everything is different.

You don't have to speak Spanish to understand just how badly situated this drink/drug control point is situated.

Also they finding drivers,in the morning, that drink beer  for breakfast and are over the drink limit.

[sierraman]

51 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

 Another one for you.....Here in Spain everything is different.

You don't have to speak Spanish to understand just how badly situated this drink/drug control point is situated.

Also they finding drivers,in the morning, that drink beer  for breakfast and are over the drink limit.

Is drink driving a big problem in Spain?

[junkyarddog]

Gave fat brother in law a loan of the Focus as his van failed it's test (surprise surprise)only to receive a call from sister(Not directly)that the fuel light had come on.

FFS,the self entitlement of some people is just mind boggling. 

🙄

[Tenmil Socket]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

HAPPY MONDAY MORNING EVERYONE

 

At least the tyre was 90% dead anyway, I suppose.

At least it's due replacement anyway... I'd be more gutted if it was a newish tyre as that looks on the verge of unrepairable?

[cobblers]

Oh yeah it was 90% dead anyway, but 90% dead rainsports are loads better than the 90% new mixed bag of tyres named after characters from Aesop's fables I have on my other wheels

 

[sierraman]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Gave fat brother in law a loan of the Focus as his van failed it's test (surprise surprise)only to receive a call from sister(Not directly)that the fuel light had come on.

FFS,the self entitlement of some people is just mind boggling. 

🙄

Bet it comes back with the fuel light on as well. 

[junkyarddog]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Bet it comes back with the fuel light on as well. 

It always has in the past,well almost so that how he got it this time 🙄

Although he has fitted a new battery to the key fob today so it now works again,so not all bad.

[Ghosty]

McDonald's have confirmed the breakfast bagel isn't coming back. 

It's the only good thing they sold...

[cobblers]

I used to love a mcmuffin, but something has happened with the eggs over this past 3 or 4 years to make them fucking awful and sulphurous 

[cobblers]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

Oh yeah it was 90% dead anyway, but 90% dead rainsports are loads better than the 90% new mixed bag of tyres named after characters from Aesop's fables I have on my other wheels

 

I was sort of joking but I have just driven around the block and I can now light the front wheels up in third gear, in a van.

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

Is drink driving a big problem in Spain?

It seems it. But The GC only do spot checks. They never follow a vehicle and pull them over. There is a phone app and you can join WhatsApp groups which inform you of spot checks. That means that spot checks are not perhaps the best way to combat this.

The use of mobile phones and the non use of seat belts is also an issue that I can see. So must other drivers.

[Popsicle]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

McDonald's have confirmed the breakfast bagel isn't coming back. 

It's the only good thing they sold...

I always presumed only Mrs Popsicle liked them - sounds nasty but I'm glad their not coming back because we always got parked up at the drive thru's as they had to make one up for her - hence why thinking only she liked them!

[twosmoke300]

7 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Gave fat brother in law a loan of the Focus as his van failed it's test (surprise surprise)only to receive a call from sister(Not directly)that the fuel light had come on.

FFS,the self entitlement of some people is just mind boggling. 

🙄

 Get that sort of shit with my loan car .

[Zelandeth]

Literally just had to interrupt a drug deal in progress - to get into my driveway.

Don't we live in a lovely place...

*Bashes head against wall repeatedly*

[Agila]

8 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Gave fat brother in law a loan of the Focus as his van failed it's test (surprise surprise)only to receive a call from sister(Not directly)that the fuel light had come on.

FFS,the self entitlement of some people is just mind boggling. 

🙄

I'd politely tell him to bring it back.

Open the door, take the keys out, hold door open so they can get out. Close the door, lock it. Go back inside your house, say nothing.

Leave the prick on your drive.

[dozeydustman]

4 hours ago, Ghosty said:

McDonald's have confirmed the breakfast bagel isn't coming back. 

It's the only good thing they sold...

Nothing from the golden arches is worth consuming.

[EML]

23 hours ago, EML said:

Some bollocks has decided my 406 didn't need its drivers side mirror and kicked it off this afternoon. 😠

The drivers side was parked close to the fence on the land next to my house.

Had a better look in daylight, foot prints on the bonnet, windscreen , roof and hand prints on the rear window,  Oh how i didn't laugh.

Soon be on tic-twat today no doubt for a few likes. But Tesco has gorrila gaffer tape at half price with the clubcard. Tape up the mirror like Jack Duckworths glasses, and the rest go on the 406 bully if i catch them

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Nothing from the golden arches is worth consuming.

When gigging in the '90s, I'd get outvoted in some towns and McGonads was their choice. If you order a plain burger it's cooked to order and just about edible

[reb]

26 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

 If you order a plain burger it's cooked to order and just about edible

Everything is made to order these days, the meat is batch cooked and stored in heated holding units. Same with the monarch of burgers. The only chain burger place that makes a good burger is Five Guys.

[High Jetter]

There is a 2/3 outlet local chain here which does cook to order, it's pretty good.