The grumpy thread

[PicantoJon]

14 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

At my place it's a flat rate for every day regardless if it's a holday or waking night. 🙄 Fuck em. 

There are rumours that they charge the local authority extra for antisocial hours but don't pass that on to staff. 

Yup, we don't get shit all extra for holidays now. Funny how the company can afford to pay the executives more each year though! 

[Rust Collector]

12 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Recyclable wrapping paper - soz trees but this stuff is absolute shite, tears under the force of a sparrows fart such that you end up using nearly double of it. Nice try but lets do it again in 5 years when it's usable, I'll take the turtle-killer stuff for now thanks. Oh you can only buy recyclable literally everywhere? CHEERS FAM

Last year I was scratching round the house looking for wrapping paper when I remembered that I had some rolls of brown paper set aside for car bodywork. It's nice and robust but I did get some long stares from my family members as I handed the gifts over that year 😅

[MiniMinorMk3]

Only another couple of days until the Easter eggs are in the shops, yippee!

[hennabm]

Cadbury crème eggs already in our local shop. The owner says it’s the earliest they have been available that she knows of.

[Datsuncog]

These were in the Spar locally last week.

I might have let out an involuntary "oh for fuck's sake..."

[Dobloseven]

1 hour ago, hennabm said:

Cadbury crème eggs already in our local shop. The owner says it’s the earliest they have been available that she knows of.

Had some a few weeks ago at our local shop. Think they've sold out now. Thought they might have been old stock but not so. 

[myglaren]

17 hours ago, Timewaster said:

You should be able to contact the network operator by calling 105 from any phone.

I'm a bit confused about them being in the paper. Were they predicted faults due to weather or planned cuts?

A mixture but mainly planned cuts.

I don't do phones other than in a dire emergency.  I was only letting them know of a cut that wasn't on the planned list.

[myglaren]

Fixing rear indicator on C3, went into the house for some tools and:

 

Shelf pulled out of the wall.  Funny smell?  Punctured butane canister.

Also bottle of sulphuric acid smashed, lots of broken glass.

May have to clean it up.  One day.

[New POD]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

Last year I was scratching round the house looking for wrapping paper when I remembered that I had some rolls of brown paper set aside for car bodywork. It's nice and robust but I did get some long stares from my family members as I handed the gifts over that year 😅

Would they prefer you wrapped them in old copies of razzle ? 

[ruffgeezer]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Would they prefer you wrapped them in old copies of razzle ? 

Pre-worn copies would stick themselves down. 🤢

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

Fixing rear indicator on C3, went into the house for some tools and:

 

Shelf pulled out of the wall.  Funny smell?  Punctured butane canister.

Also bottle of sulphuric acid smashed, lots of broken glass.

May have to clean it up.  One day.

Out of curiosity, what do you have sulphuric acid for?

[chaseracer]

Corroding shelf brackets? 😉

[myglaren]

52 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Out of curiosity, what do you have sulphuric acid for?

Came from a buggered battery.  Not sure why I kept it, seemed a good idea at the time.

Doesn't sting much.

[barefoot]

Cream eggs have been in corner shop since October , but at 73p each, no one is buying them.

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

Cream eggs... 73p each...

HFM...???!? 😳

[Supernaut]

Just now, chaseracer said:

HFM...???!? 😳

Am I seeing things or did the forum software italicise that emoji? 🤣

[somewhatfoolish]

I'd be italicised if someone tried to charge me 73p for a creme egg.

[hairnet]

So it was 4 am thinking about medical on weds

230 now thinking about same thing

Ffs

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, chaseracer said:

HFM...???!? 😳

Ewww

Welcome to them

Rolo eggs ftw

[Pieman]

You're welcome to all of them, I don't really like chocolate apart from the occasional bar of Dairy Milk.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Plague fun continues. My throat is still really bad so I can't get enough food in. My last proper meal was Wednesday so I feel this. The throat has also started with something new that I will spare you the details of, but this means that I have not been able to sleep this night.

But the fever is better so that's something.

[Yoss]

On 12/22/2022 at 11:49 AM, outlaw118 said:

Beginning to think that I might actually be a massive cunt.

I don't go out much, time, money and arsedness (lack of) tend to get in the way these days, but pre-pandemic I reckon I went out at least once a week, met up with the lads, banger racing , gigs. 

Now, I don't know whether I'vew changed, or pissed someone off, but late summer all* the chaps met up at a local pub by the river, and judging by the photos on Faceybook it looked like a "return to the good old days".

Was I invited? Was I fuck. Never mind.

Last weekend a similar bunch of friends* went out in That London, for the "annual get together". Was I invited? This is despite one of the protagonists walks past Outlaw_Towers a couple of times a week to visit his olds, another I saw a week before, and another I went out with the night before!

I've been working in a depot for about 2 years, in every day during lockdown, then in and out itermittently since - one day a week I'm there all day, other times it's random/weather dependent.

They had their Christmas party last night, and I only know about it because the cleaner told me that the blokes toilets had overflowed because someone had bunged the urinal up with silly string.

I know I shouldn't let it bother me, but.....

Sounds like a lucky escape to me. But that might just be me. I've taken to going out on my own in recent years. It's great, go when you want, come home when you want, no waiting for anyone else to faff about wondering what the hell they they are doing.

That may not work for nights out drinking and stuff but days out at car/bus/train events it's a joy. 

[artdjones]

5 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Plague fun continues. My throat is still really bad so I can't get enough food in. My last proper meal was Wednesday so I feel this. The throat has also started with something new that I will spare you the details of, but this means that I have not been able to sleep this night.

But the fever is better so that's something.

Drink as much (water) as you can. I found that real improvement started after a week. 

[DavieW]

17 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Out of curiosity, what do you have sulphuric acid for?

To dispose of the local cat population without leaving evidence. 

[Zelandeth]

Great...our oven has just decided to completely lose its marbles.  Great timing!

Who the fsck thought it was anything resembling sane to cram something like a cooker full of bloody electronics anyway?  Utter stupidity.

As always, great timing.  Not as though we need that today/tomorrow or anything.

[iainrcz]

Just spent 35 minutes trying to get this crap out of the tube, bent my skeleton gun. It's going in the bin. It's literally full, what a waste of money.

[3VOM]

2 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Just spent 35 minutes trying to get this crap out of the tube, bent my skeleton gun. It's going in the bin. It's literally full, what a waste of money.

Have you been sold out of date stock? Wouldn't be the first time I've heard of it with sealants and the like.

[iainrcz]

1 minute ago, 3VOM said:

Have you been sold out of date stock? Wouldn't be the first time I've heard of it with sealants and the like.

The tube says 9/9/23, I'd rather optimistically gone up the step ladder to do a job above a window. Cant even get it out with the gun braced against the bench in my shed.

[3VOM]

You have cut the top off the tube under the screw on nozzle? Just checking

[iainrcz]

36 minutes ago, 3VOM said:

You have cut the top off the tube under the screw on nozzle? Just checking

Now you mention it...

I've actually got some out, but without the nozzle on which kind of negates it being in the handy form of premixed in a tube.  Also means I had to smear it in the gaps with a lolly stick.

I've just read some Amazon reviews "doesn't come out of the tube" 

So I'm not the only idiot 😆