The grumpy thread

[Lankytim]

34 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Next time they beg to go somewhere tell them you don't want to take them, maybe then they'll learn not to be so ungrateful.

Sounds like a plan!

[Back_For_More]

Firstly..... I cycle..... I do long hauls on occasion too.... My mates and I are off in April on a Trappist beer distillery tour. 

Slight grump - I don't like beer

GRUMP - lanes here are rural to say the least..... 

Just back from Belgo land, all smooth sailing and a happy grin on my boat when I almost ended up in a field. 

2 lane road and pootling at 40....... Around the corner and I kid you not, a full on herd of lycra clad 2 wheelers RIGHT ACROSS THE SODDING ROAD a la Tour De Where-the-fuck-ever.... 

Nowhere to go so just slammed on..... 

Cars behind me also a bit perturbed as they probably usually hit way over 40 and I was already too cautious in their eyes..... (I've seen the Sunday morning brigades before so wasn't taking any chances) 

Cue - Blazing row with chief bearded tosser about the highway code and them being utter goat felchers..... 

Ruined a perfectly pleasant trip back for no reason than dipshittery...... 

Still grinding my teeth.... If I'd have hit any of them..... 

Another in need of fitting a dashcam methinks..... 

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, Back_For_More said:

Firstly..... I cycle..... I do long hauls on occasion too.... My mates and I are off in April on a Trappist beer distillery tour. 

Slight grump - I don't like beer

GRUMP - lanes here are rural to say the least..... 

Just back from Belgo land, all smooth sailing and a happy grin on my boat when I almost ended up in a field. 

2 lane road and pootling at 40....... Around the corner and I kid you not, a full on herd of lycra clad 2 wheelers RIGHT ACROSS THE SODDING ROAD a la Tour De Where-the-fuck-ever.... 

Nowhere to go so just slammed on..... 

Cars behind me also a bit perturbed as they probably usually hit way over 40 and I was already too cautious in their eyes..... (I've seen the Sunday morning brigades before so wasn't taking any chances) 

Cue - Blazing row with chief bearded tosser about the highway code and them being utter goat felchers..... 

Ruined a perfectly pleasant trip back for no reason than dipshittery...... 

Still grinding my teeth.... If I'd have hit any of them..... 

Another in need of fitting a dashcam methinks..... 

I am sorry to say but I am confused.

Firstly trappest beer is Brewed in Belgium (note it is not distilled) and there they do not use the highway code.

If you are in Belgium then the rules of the road are different to the UK, and every other part of Europe.

[Split_Pin]

Your energy is too precious to waste time arguing with people who are stupid and arrogant like that. They're not worth the shit off your shoe.

[High Jetter]

22 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I am sorry to say but I am confused.

Firstly trappest beer is Brewed in Belgium (note it is not distilled) and there they do not use the highway code.

If you are in Belgium then the rules of the road are different to the UK, and every other part of Europe.

Back from Belgo land in 4th para, so uk soil?

[barefoot]

I've done my best to fit in here over the years, but a couple of things still irk me. Chod & Bork. Whatever Chod may mean, it cannot be interpreted as an old car, no matter how borked it may be. 

Which leads me to borked - from Bob Bork, who was blocked, defamed & vilified but was never broken.

I appreciate that you'll not be giving a fuck, but you'll know. And more importantly, I'll know that you know.

Chod may refer to:

• Chief of Defence, the highest ranked commissioned officer of a nation's armed forces
• Chöd, a spiritual practice found in certain schools of Tibetan Buddhism
• CHOD-FM, a Canadian radio station
• Chöd drum or chöda, a damaru (drum) used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism
• Chod region (Czech: Chodsko, German: Chodenland), an ethnographical region around Domažlice in West Bohemia, Czech Republic
  • Chodové (sometimes called the Chod people), inhabitants of this region
  • Chod dialect, spoken in this region
• Ch'od, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012)^[1] was an American jurist who served as the solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. 

According to columnist William Safire, the first published use of "bork" as a verb was possibly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20, 1987, two months prior to the final vote: "Let's just hope something enduring results for the justice-to-be, like a new verb: Borked."^[42] Perhaps the best-known use of the verb "to bork" occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically. This little creep, where did he come from?"^[43] Thomas was subsequently confirmed after the most divisive confirmation hearing in Supreme Court history to that point. In March 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the verb "bork" as U.S. political slang, with this definition: "To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually to prevent his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way."^[44] Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh used the term during his own contentious Senate confirmation hearing testimony when he stated that "The behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment. But at least it was just a good old-fashioned attempt at borking."

[loserone]

Thankfully we're not the French, so words still mean what the writer and the reader take it to mean, whether that's formally recognised or not.

[Back_For_More]

10 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I am sorry to say but I am confused.

Firstly trappest beer is Brewed in Belgium (note it is not distilled) and there they do not use the highway code.

If you are in Belgium then the rules of the road are different to the UK, and every other part of Europe.

You obviously missed the part.... JUST BACK FROM BELGO LAND.... Easily done.... 

Possibly unaware but I can go back there via  various means of transportation - so easy enough to tour at a later date too..... 

Hope that helps  😉

[juular]

I always understood Chod to mean weeds or detritus. There's a fishing rig called a Chod Rig which holds the hook floating just above the weeds on a lake bed so you don't get snagged.

When applied to shit bottom of the barrel cars it makes sense.

[goosey]

Got emailed today with a fine for driving in a Bus Lane a month ago £35, that’s the last time I take my in-laws to the NIA or whatever it’s called now*
 

*my own fault 

[Back_For_More]

From "we're going to bork him" you'd easily see that as meaning f*ck him up royally..... Slang terms are not often a direct adoption of the term being used... 

Borked is a well used term for fu**ed.

Chod is a Hindu term for F*ck..... 

Chode - apenis wider than it is long.... 

Could be misspelling of Choad (I thought so way back) meaning uncool.....  and alternative spelling of Chode above. 

It gets confusing sharpish..... 

 

 

[Yoss]

CHOD-FM sounds great. 

[myglaren]

Stupidphone.

Gave the number to the garage fixing my car (loose heatshield).

Took the number from the phone, but it has lost a digit.  Doesn't know it's own number.

[doug]

New rear shocks and one new front tyre fitted at the weekend and the ungrateful POS rewarded me by breaking down on me today.

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[Zelandeth]

Ah, that moment when after carefully talking the seller of something through appropriate packing materials and methods, it arrives with absolutely none of them implemented...

In this case at least less of a grump as the item by some miracle survived intact...but seriously, it really gets old.  If you're going to go to the lengths of asking how best to package something for post either just say you're not willing to do it or follow the advice given!

[Rust Collector]

By context I took chod to mean shit/shite.

I was using the term borked before I was signed up on here, I always took that to be an equivalent to FUBAR.

[MikeR]

Loose valve core on the front tyre ... Wondered what was up with the handling .  Did not wreck the tyre this time ! 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 04/03/2023 at 13:27, Bren said:

Purchased some injector cleaner for the mondeo.

Cannot add it to the tank because the flap in the filler wont open - I have noticed it can be awkward getting the pump nozzle in when refuelling.

there should be a shewee in the boot for this very purpose

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 05/03/2023 at 12:23, Pieman said:

Next time they beg to go somewhere tell them you can't afford to take them cos they wasted £50 last time, maybe then they'll learn not to be so ungrateful.

EFA

[Zelandeth]

Additional grump: Just been out to post a parcel (this one properly packaged!) only to discover our usual post office has closed in the last month.

Oh joy.

[Bren]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

there should be a shewee in the boot for this very purpose

Found it. Done it.

[wuvvum]

Second day back at work after a week off and I'm already fed up with it again!  Can't have any more time off though because it's manic - we have the usual problem that we always get this time of year that everyone is trying to use up their holiday entitlement before the end of the financial year, but for some reason it seems to be worse than usual this year, not just in the company but with clients as well, which is making it very difficult to get anything done.  And of course being the end of the financial year everyone wants to get their money paid, which would be fine if half the accounts team wasn't on holiday.  

Also this weather can get tae feck.

[Richard_FM]

19 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Second day back at work after a week off and I'm already fed up with it again!  Can't have any more time off though because it's manic - we have the usual problem that we always get this time of year that everyone is trying to use up their holiday entitlement before the end of the financial year, but for some reason it seems to be worse than usual this year, not just in the company but with clients as well, which is making it very difficult to get anything done.  And of course being the end of the financial year everyone wants to get their money paid, which would be fine if half the accounts team wasn't on holiday.  

Also this weather can get tae feck.

Where I work we were sent an email telling us to use up 75% of our entitlement by September as it causes problems when everybody tried to use it up towards the end of the year, which is when the period starts.

[Zelandeth]

Sleet really is one of those types of weather which really can be summed up in no better way than "utterly bloody miserable."

Even the dog was grumpy about being made to go out in it.

[MikeR]

14 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Where I work we were sent an email telling us to use up 75% of our entitlement by September as it causes problems when everybody tried to use it up towards the end of the year, which is when the period starts.

We had all that shite as well , and people with no kids booking the school hols to go off , lots of sickness ensued .....

[Back_For_More]

A screw up at work meant being asked to be nice and put in the hours to cover for the idiot..... No overtime and no hours in lieue - a one off so let's just muck in and get it done. 

3 weeks later and the fuckers emailed everyone - they've noticed some are late online and off sharpish at 5-5.30..... 

My 1 2 1 tomorrow - it won't be pretty - the ungrateful bunch of wankers 

[iainrcz]

Puncture. Bastard.

[Richard_FM]

9 hours ago, MikeR said:

We had all that shite as well , and people with no kids booking the school hols to go off , lots of sickness ensued .....

At my old job people with children had priority in the school holidays.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

12 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

At my old job people with children had priority in the school holidays.

Which goes against established best practice for HR.  First come, first served is the standard practice.  Parents shouldn't get priority - after all having children is (in the vast majority of cases) a lifestyle choice.

https://www.brighthr.com/blog/holidays/should-you-prioritise-parents-when-approving-summer-holiday-requests/

https://www.insightsforprofessionals.com/hr/employment-law/parents-priority-for-summer-holidays

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2005/jul/22/discriminationatwork.workandcareers

[MikeR]

16 hours ago, Back_For_More said:

A screw up at work meant being asked to be nice and put in the hours to cover for the idiot..... No overtime and no hours in lieue - a one off so let's just muck in and get it done. 

3 weeks later and the fuckers emailed everyone - they've noticed some are late online and off sharpish at 5-5.30..... 

My 1 2 1 tomorrow - it won't be pretty - the ungrateful bunch of wankers 

Best thing about work , is I stopped ....

Same stories off everyone about hols , helping out , time keeping and office idiots ....