The grumpy thread

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  morris_ital_lover said:

[rant mode]Students.... despite being one. Mainly the holy of holiest attitude about tution fees, oh 'cos we're students we shouldn't be given massively discounted optional education whn thousands area being laid off by the government and private industry. [/rant mode].

ive just watched the bbc videos of the 'protests' and the cheeky b'stards were shouting 'workers unite'

 

when did students ever do any work?

[morris_ital_lover]

Not sure I haven't met such people yet . The fees issue has just become a way of the socialist society at my uni trying to get some new members as well as the standard attnetion wh0res...

 

m0rris

[maxpower]

Plebs on ebay

 

if you want to come and see the car... no problem

 

of course you can have the address and phone number

 

and it is no inconvience that i will spend my only day off work stuck in the house only for you to NOT FUCKING BOTHER TURNING UP.. without saying you cant make it

 

you fucking timewasting pissdrip

[Guest]

A5, some of us do work* actually, just not those showers of shit who'd rather smash stuff up and make the rest of us look like vandals. A minority tarring the rest with a brush dipped in shit, you know how it goes.

 

Sorry and all that, I know what you mean though. Anyway, have another eBay grump.

 

See a nice Zenith Racetrack on Septic eBay. Seller says he won't ship out of the US. I send a message saying 'no bother, send it to my friend in California and she can ship it to me.' Seller replies and says this is fine. Ambitious bid concocted via eSnipe.

 

Seller blocks my bid because I'm registered in the UK.

 

Fucking BELL END. My bid was more than what it went for! Seen a white one on el eBayo now for less money, and I imagine the shipping will be cheaper. I'll be buying that one then, cumburp. Suitably shitty message sent.

 

(*I had 11 hours of contact time a week and was working 25 hours p/t at a call centre in Bolton until they decided their staff didn't like me and I wasn't dropping to my knees with gratitude and sucking them off every 30 seconds for giving me a job. Whop studying and travel time on top of that and I'm hardly standing around picking my arse. I couldn't go to any of the student demos because I was in Uni or working. And the coach company wanted £70 to go down to London. Now I'm seeking gainful employment I couldn't go and take pictures of the Wirral walkout because we had to submit our programme proposals......and I was skint anyway because the C4 needed taxing).

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some students do work - as i did when i was at uni (crappy jobs that pay the rent and bills)

 

but most of the students i met at Durham uni didnt do a stroke and relied on daddys credit card to pay the bills

 

i was asked if i wanted to join some hooray henrys on a skiing holiday one winter

 

1200 quid for 4 days

 

no thanks says i - thats 3 months living expenses for me - and all i got was a bewildered look from them - some students just have no idea what budgeting is

[Akron]

During the Summer I delivered a special delivery letter to a student house. Girl answers the door signs for the envelope rips it open and shouts over her shoulder to a guy sat in the kitchen " Daddy is a bastard he only sent me 5 grand for this month" FFS poor girl

[Louise2cv]

I was shocked by the number of new cars in the carparks in halls of residence. Surely it should be compulsary for students to either walk, bus, cycle or drive shite cars... by law.

 

My grump, and probably one you lot can't relate to, (but I think its good for you to know whenever females get on their high horse about such matters, as some are clearly liers):

 

 

Ladies Toilets.

 

Or rather some "ladies" that use them.

 

For the so called "fairer sex" I have seen some minging bogs in my time. Today I had to go to the loo in a posh shop ( the kind of place where you can't get a cushion for less than £40) and there were all kinds of stains on the walls, wet floors and wet toilet paper. WTF do these people do in there? And the number of people who seem to have an inability to flush!

 

Not to mention the people who take the time to linger in loos and pull the seats/locks/doors off, screw up paper and wet it to throw at the ceiling etc. Honestly I can't get out of these places quick enough, and these people seem to be going out of their way to "entertain" themselves in there.

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students again

[ChinaTom]

I have been trying to find an old uni mate (we were found virtually every term-time Saturday morning between 1991 and 1993 outside JG Windows in Newcastle u Tyne busking for our beer money) for the last few years - we lost touch when I emigrated in 99. After a right good search I found a few possible numbers for him and was pretty disappointed when none of them resulted in a response. Didn't let this stop me - the guy was Norwegian, studying physiotherapy and had a pretty uncommon name even on Norway, so all bets were on when I found that name as the head of a private Physio place in Oslo. Still no response - maybe he didn't want to get back in touch. Reluctantly wrote the idea off.

 

Got an e-mail from him this morning - the chap was diagnosed with ALS (similar to Steven Hawking) in 2002, it got him good and proper by 2005, his wife left him taking their son, and he's now living back "at home" with family needing 100% care and assistance. He's lost most speech now and communicates by typing mostly now. He sounded so pleased to hear from me (someone finally gave him the message that a Brit was looking for him) which caused spontaneous explosive tears for me as I read his mail - which is something I haven't done since I was about 9.

 

Here we are in our Tom and Thom's Acoustic Circus hey-day (he's on the left) - days I had really hoped to re-create soon. Even more pissed off that I find this out as I start another Asia stint.

 

 

I'm a sad guy today.

[scaryoldcortina]

Damn, thats bad luck. If it's any consolation I used to contribute to your beer money on my way into windows on a saturday.. I also seem to remember seeing you at the Bitter End Club (Broken Doll, wednesday nights?)

 

My grump is (also) students. My daughter is in a shared house with 2 lads. One of them has occasional loud parties (which she has been complaining about, they are interrupting her studying), a neighbour has complained to the council and the college, all three of them have been hauled in for a bollocking. She's just been on the phone, college bods are threatening them with eviction, loss of deposit etc due to "serious" breaches of their contracts. Her argument is primarily that it wasn't her, and she signed an individual contract to live in a shared house with 2 strangers, over whom she has no control. This standpoint apparently makes her "stroppy" and a "troublemaker" so I'm going through her contract at the moment because if they think she's a stroppy troublemaker they are going to get a shock when they meet me.

[keef]

  ChinaTom said:

diagnosed with ALS (similar to Steven Hawking) in 2002,

 

Life can be cruel at times. Makes you question everything.

 

Had a friend die of cancer a while back. Makes you appreciate life and realise nothing else really matters.

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  scaryoldcortina said:

Damn, thats bad luck. If it's any consolation I used to contribute to your beer money on my way into windows on a saturday.. I also seem to remember seeing you at the Bitter End Club (Broken Doll, wednesday nights?)

 

My grump is (also) students. My daughter is in a shared house with 2 lads. One of them has occasional loud parties (which she has been complaining about, they are interrupting her studying), a neighbour has complained to the council and the college, all three of them have been hauled in for a bollocking. She's just been on the phone, college bods are threatening them with eviction, loss of deposit etc due to "serious" breaches of their contracts. Her argument is primarily that it wasn't her, and she signed an individual contract to live in a shared house with 2 strangers, over whom she has no control. This standpoint apparently makes her "stroppy" and a "troublemaker" so I'm going through her contract at the moment because if they think she's a stroppy troublemaker they are going to get a shock when they meet me.

 

i couldnt understand how the uni have control over the tenancies - do they own the house?

[scaryoldcortina]

according to her contract, yes, they do own (or at least control the letting of) the house.

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  scaryoldcortina said:

according to her contract, yes, they do own (or at least control the letting of) the house.

 

sly b'stards - she will have to toe the line then

[morris_ital_lover]

Unis are unforgiving institutions, I was given a warning (you only get one... then its £500 fine and the next punishment is explusion) as part of warning to our entire block in halls for a "persistently dirt kitchen" and uninvited guests.... whilst I was occasionally responsible for the kitchen I had nothiing to do with the guests as they were someone elses on another floor FFS.

 

As for student cars, I have been massively disappointed by the stock here, ranging from new fiestas, lupos etc to astras, focuses, golfs etc The shitest cars was a.... mk1 clio.

 

m0rris

[Guest]

Haha, the list of student cars at Salford is a bit weird really.

 

One girl on my course has a fully loaded '10 Nissan Qashqai. I'm not even sure how she got insured on it - it's a 2 litre and she's 18. She called my C4 'old'. She also had trouble understanding:

 

1. That I bought the car myself,

2. That I bought it on a finance agreement with some savings and that I paid off the rest because I had a full time job,

3. That I have other 'very old' cars that I have and drive because I like them and like fixing them.

 

Other than that, the majority of my course mates don't drive. There's some interesting kit appearing in the car park from time to time - a very sound Morris 1000, a rather strange custom LHD Beetle, another sheddy Cal-look Bug, a mint 1600 Mk3 Capri, a Nissan Figaro (inevitably) and a 20V Safrane, which is owned by a student rather than a member of staff.

 

The chod around Lancaster campus beats the Salford kit hands down though - there was a LHD 131 Amazon (which is still in use), a Daimler Conquest, a Citroen DS23 Safari and a Dodge Monaco estate (with fablon on the sides).

 

The 480 went unnoticed, except off the security guard, who thought it was 'fucking well nice cos my mate had one, but his caught fire'.

 

Well, that's me told.

[Guest]

Unrelated grump:

 

FATHA_WAT IS ILL.

 

This is not good. FATHA_WAT has had a knee operation. FATHA_WAT cannot drive for two weeks or do any kind of physical exertion. FATHA_WAT cannot sit still for more than 32 minutes without wanting to fix \ plant \ type something up on his computer. He's not pissing about at the moment because he's still feeling the after effects of the anaesthetic and keeps dozing off.

 

I pick him up from the hospital and he asks me to go and get an outdoor Christmas tree, some plant fleeces and bird feeders. It dawns on me when I get back that he's probably going to get all of this shite up and running whilst MOTHA_WAT is at work and I'm at Uni.

He will be a total a PITA over the weekend because he'll get in the car 'just to go and get some stuff' and he'll go and knacker his knee up again. The same knee that he knackered up building a greenhouse that I didn't help him with. Mainly because I had no fucking idea he'd bought it and wanted help, he said nothing.

 

AAAAAAAARGH. MOTHA_WAT and me both have stuff to do at the weekend and he'll go and do something ridiculous unaided, like replacing the battery on his boat (90 miles away) or digging a massive hole in the garden with a trowel (the holes I dug for him were 'wrong' and 'shit' apparently) or doing the outdoor Christmas lights.

 

I feel a 'Misery' coming on.

[Guest]

  watanabe said:

Seen a white one on el eBayo now for less money, and I imagine the shipping will be cheaper. I'll be buying that one then, cumburp. Suitably shitty message sent.

 

 

SHITSTICKS. I think this H511 may go out of my price range. I hadn't banked on how rare the white racetracks were.

 

RADIO RACISTS.

[Lankytim]

Hey China, I'm sorry to hear of your friends situation. Life can dish out a real kick in the nuts sometimes! Still, it sounds like you both had alot of fun back in the day.

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  Lankytim said:

Hey China, I'm sorry to hear of your friends situation. Life can dish out a real kick in the nuts sometimes! Still, it sounds like you both had alot of fun back in the day.

 

I would also like to extend my condolences Tom. He sounds like his life has been cut tragically short.

[Pete-M]

Tailgating twats on the motorways.

 

I've been up to sunny Hartlepool today (Monkey 'angin' bastards) where it's rather snowy and miserable. According to the car the temp was floating around 0.5-1°C and grip wasn't exactly plentiful. On the way home I was doing a rather sensible speed on the motorway (in the flow of traffic) when some utter cock-bubble in a 54 plate Transit (which appeared to be overloaded from the ride height) very nearly punted me into the barrier. I managed, just, to get out of his way.. he then went on to do the same to the bloke in front of me, and the bloke in front..

 

It's the first time in 20 years of doing an average of 50k a year that I've ever rang a company to complain about someone's driving, but that prick is going to cause a massive crash. He was literally 3-4" from the car in front.

 

If I'd known the number for West Yorkshire Plod, I'd have rung them as well.

[retrogeezer]

sorry to hear about your mate Tom....that sucks.

 

 

My grump for today is bloody cyclists riding bikes at night with no lights - what the fuck is up with them??

 

When I was a kid it costa fortune in batteries to have lights but we still had them. Nowadays you can buy those LED ones that last for EVAR.

 

And where are the rozzers that should be nicking them??? And where are the dog fouling wardens? And where are the litter wardens that dish out fines? Do these people even exist?

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  retrogeezer said:

sorry to hear about your mate Tom....that sucks.

 

 

My grump for today is bloody cyclists riding bikes at night with no lights - what the fuck is up with them??

 

When I was a kid it costa fortune in batteries to have lights but we still had them. Nowadays you can buy those LED ones that last for EVAR.

 

And where are the rozzers that should be nicking them??? And where are the dog fouling wardens? And where are the litter wardens that dish out fines? Do these people even exist?

 

 

they have all been laid off (sacked, in common terms) as britain grinds to a halt because bankers cant survive without screwing us all

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  Louise2cv said:

Today I had to go to the loo in a posh shop ( the kind of place where you can't get a cushion for less than £40) and there were all kinds of stains on the walls, wet floors and wet toilet paper. WTF do these people do in there? And the number of people who seem to have an inability to flush!

 

Not to mention the people who take the time to linger in loos and pull the seats/locks/doors off, screw up paper and wet it to throw at the ceiling etc. Honestly I can't get out of these places quick enough, and these people seem to be going out of their way to "entertain" themselves in there.

 

I'll just leave this here for you Louise:

 

[M'coli]

I too am sad to hear your news Tom.

[chaseracer]

  retrogeezer said:

...And where are the rozzers that should be nicking them??? And where are the dog fouling wardens? And where are the litter wardens that dish out fines? Do these people even exist?

They used to, but they're public service workers who are apparently completely to blame for the recession, as - in an incredible piece of media manipulation - the government has managed to convince the more gullible citizens of this country...

[seth]

ChinaT, That is a sad situation.

 

Still, you probably made his day by getting in touch.

[Pillock]

A summary of comments on your shit days:

 

ChinaTom - what can I say, that's just unthinkable?

 

Ladies Toilets - Fairer sex my arse. I used to have to lock up our old workshop during a stint as a teamleader, which meant checking every room for peoples before shutting up .Go in the blokes loos.... bit stinky, the odd bogie wiped on the wall, a bit of splashback around the urinal. Go in the ladies.... WHOA!! What's that stink?? And is there some medical reason you curl off a turd and don't flush - and seemingly, don't even wipe?? Jesus. And women were outnumbered by men 4:1.

 

Policing minor offences - no, there's nobody out on the streets any more. It's a rare sight to see a policeman using the power of his own two legs, they sometimes do round here but even then it's in pairs, which seems to halve the amount of area they can cover in my eyes. They seem to prefer sitting in the police station waiting for a call, jumping in the car and driving to it. Or pulling people over for minor traffic offences......

[Tayne]

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[Tayne]

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