The grumpy thread

[barrett]

Bloody luxury! Our scout leader had a Renault 16, it regularly carried eight people and I think 12 was the record. Occasionally parents would help with the transport but it was rare for any car not to be overloaded with passengers.

 

You remind me of one of the Four Yorkshiremen!

[morris_ital_lover]

I remember my mum shared the school run with another family who had rear facing seats in a volvo 240, they then replaced the volvo with a montego....9seemed to have an interest in rear facing seats!) as a kid there was nothing cooler, it certainly beat my 'rents VW Golf.

 

m0rris

[Negative Creep]

No mail or parcels for 7 days now. I know the weather has been poor but it's not as if we live on a remote Scottish island!

[keef]

No mail or parcels for 7 days now.

 

We hadn't had any for four days or so, but got two lots today.

[Louise2cv]

The Iceland advert.

 

Ellie Gouldings version of "Your Song".

 

 

I need to get out more.

[messerschmitt owner]

The Iceland advert.

 

Ellie Gouldings version of "Your Song".

 

 

I need to get out more.

the Iceland advert is a series of bad adverts - with bad acting by lots of ladies, and some washed up has been from neighbours.

 

I have been put off T-Rex for life ...

[cobblers]

Along the line of adverts, that M&S advert with Peter Kay invokes some weird feeling inside me that's hard to describe. It's a cross between embarrassment, disgust and that feeling when your heart sinks as you realise you've gambled on a fart and lost. I wouldn't say it's cheesy or badly done like the Iceland adverts, it's just horrible.

[Louise2cv]

Along the line of adverts, that M&S advert with Peter Kay invokes some weird feeling inside me that's hard to describe. It's a cross between embarrassment, disgust and that feeling when your heart sinks as you realise you've gambled on a fart and lost. I wouldn't say it's cheesy or badly done like the Iceland adverts, it's just horrible.

 

 

Oh! Agree agree!

 

Maybe I'm stupid/missing the point, but is the badly chosen Peter Kay body-double supposed to be funny?

[messerschmitt owner]

this year's round of CHristmas food adverts is as appetising as the food they portray - bleurgh!

[cobblers]

http://www.peterkay.net/

 

 

That's the guy. He was fairly funny about 8 or 9 years ago, to people from the north of england. Unfortunately, he's been unable to think of any new jokes since 2004.

[Lankytim]

You miserable gits, Peter Kay is great!

[Pillock]

Women. Specifically, women who TURN ME DOWN. Pfffft.

[eddyramrod]

Ellie Gouldings version of "Your Song".

 

I suspect I heard this on local radio last week. It seemed to go on for about nine years. I had been certain until that point that it was totally impossible to make an Elton John song sound any more miserable than he does, but now I realise how wrong I was. If I never hear any version of any of his songs ever again, it'll be five or six lifetimes too soon.

 

NOTE TO SINGERS COVERING OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS: DO NOT DRAG THE PACE DOWN SO FAR THAT YOU GET OVERTAKEN BY FUNERALS!!!!! They are ALL guilty of this... why do they do it? AAAARGH!!!!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

You miserable gits, Peter Kay is great!

 

He was alright about 8 years ago, he's since become very lazy, cynical and manipulative of his audience.

[messerschmitt owner]

You miserable gits, Peter Kay is great!

 

He was alright about 8 years ago, he's since become very lazy, cynical and manipulative of his audience.

agree with this - one joke does not a career make

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSIMMTRk44c

 

You've enjoyed listening to my memories

[Lankytim]

To be fair my experience of Peter Kay is a box set of Phoenix Nights and a couple of his live stand up DVD's.

[fiatdaft]

my washer bottle froze and burst last night,there was plenty of screenwash in aswell,and my snow chains are 10 days late,grrrr and brrrr its cold!

[boobydoo]

Ellie Gouldings version of "Your Song".

 

I suspect I heard this on local radio last week. It seemed to go on for about nine years. I had been certain until that point that it was totally impossible to make an Elton John song sound any more miserable than he does, but now I realise how wrong I was. If I never hear any version of any of his songs ever again, it'll be five or six lifetimes too soon.

 

NOTE TO SINGERS COVERING OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS: DO NOT DRAG THE PACE DOWN SO FAR THAT YOU GET OVERTAKEN BY FUNERALS!!!!! They are ALL guilty of this... why do they do it? AAAARGH!!!!

 

Yeah, there's another one whos truly slit-wristingly awful. She died of cancer a while back but has unfortunately left a legacy of complete dirges that people seem to like for some reason. Can't remember her name. She sang Fields Of Gold...Fields Of Dreary Shit more like.

[garycox]

Eva Cassidy.

 

Awful.

[eddyramrod]

Cypriot drivers. They recognise only two speeds: 20mph, and 220 mph. There seems to be nothing at all between. They also cannot drive an inch without their foglights on, preferably aimed directly into the eyes of any approaching traffic. Even then, when they get to where they're going, they have to park no more than four inches from the door. Park? Perhaps I should say "abandon their cars" as there is precisely no thought whatsoever involved. Also, as mentioned in another thread, they find it impossible to drive without A) a cigarette; a mobile phone stuck to their ear; C) a small child on their lap; D) a cup of coffee laced with Zivania; E) alcohol in their veins (there's certainly no blood). And it seems most of the expats and British tourists I meet adopt a "can't beat 'em? Join 'em!" approach, especially on the last point. I think I need a bigger truck...

 

Boobydoo and Gary, thank goodness! I thought I was the only one! Now the truth can be told: Eva Cassidy should never have been allowed within 500 miles of a recording studio! I'd have shipwrecked her on the same island as James Blunt and David Gray, they could depress each other to death.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Cypriot drivers. They recognise only two speeds: 20mph, and 220 mph. There seems to be nothing at all between. They also cannot drive an inch without their foglights on, preferably aimed directly into the eyes of any approaching traffic. Even then, when they get to where they're going, they have to park no more than four inches from the door. Park? Perhaps I should say "abandon their cars" as there is precisely no thought whatsoever involved. Also, as mentioned in another thread, they find it impossible to drive without A) a cigarette; a mobile phone stuck to their ear; C) a small child on their lap; D) a cup of coffee laced with Zivania; E) alcohol in their veins (there's certainly no blood). And it seems most of the expats and British tourists I meet adopt a "can't beat 'em? Join 'em!" approach, especially on the last point. I think I need a bigger truck...

 

Very little courtesy too, you have to fight your way into traffic. Also, lots of tailgating and no signalling.

[eddyramrod]

Sadly true...

[Angrydicky]

Sadly true...

 

Southport awaits Eddy's return...

[retrogeezer]

To be fair my experience of Peter Kay is a box set of Phoenix Nights and a couple of his live stand up DVD's.

 

Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing are great and his book was a read too. Trouble is people think garlic bread is his only joke.

[Negative Creep]

Postman won't deliver to our street as apparently it's too icy. Hasn't stopped my dad walking to the depot and back for the last 2 days though

[garycox]

I've been dithering about trying to decide whether to buy a certain vehicle... I finally decided YES I DEFINITELY WANT IT AND CAN'T POSSIBLY LIVE WITHOUT IT.

 

Called up - Too late.

 

[Tayne]

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[Mike D]

I'm looking for a cheap car at the minute for my sister in law, and it came to a decision between the apprentice at work's Grandads 'mint low mileage H reg Nissan Sunny - no rust and all the mot's etc' or the Astra that was offered up on here...

I thought the sunny was probably worth a look, sounded great, cheap tax, small engine, 5 doors, no rust and low mileage, so i took a trip down earlier... It was the most rotten rusty pile of crap i've seen for a long while, black tarred sills full of wag, sill ends left open from previous garage 'repairs', rotten bulging seams all over the floors, no front wheel arches to speak of.....

 

What a wasted trip, and because i was waiting on him to let me come and view it i've missed out on the astra too. Arsebiscuits

 

Anyone got something under 1500cc and cheap? only stipulation is it isnt a Kia Pride!

[Guest]

The radio station at Uni. What a bunch of disorganised bastards.

 

I'm about an inch away from throwing my lot in with the station I worked for in Derby and jibbing Shock off completely.

Let me give you an example of their disorganisation - they're holding an AGM tomorrow, but have they said where, or when? Have they bollocks. I don't know whether this is wilful or due to incompetence. Their news department is crying out for more people 'because of a lack of interest'. I could do what they need from home standing on my bastard head. I have contacted their head of news in person TEN TIMES and by email TWENTY FIVE TIMES. Has she got back to me?

 

Today (after trying since late September - really should be back in school ) she replied.

'I don't know, let me have a think. They're changing everything over at the AGM'.

 

And the merry go round has done a full loop. Why have all the horses got arrows through their heads? Wait a minute........