The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

'shops are real, man...'

[Pieman]

On 22/10/2023 at 17:58, richardmorris said:

Plenty of stupid drivers about.

 

That would be made even better if the cameraman made the drivers do a piece to camera, introducing themselves and making them admit how bloody stupid they are.

And the footage of the tractor busting through the closure barriers further up the page is quite scary - if that trailer had fallen over, fuck knows how they'd have recovered it all!

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

And the footage of the tractor busting through the closure barriers further up the page is quite scary - if that trailer had fallen over, fuck knows how they'd have recovered it all!

It would have served the idiot behind the wheel absolutely right if it had gone over.  Given the location, very unlikely anyone else would have been hurt, and he'd be very unlikely to be able to clear it up before the police arrived...

[goosey]

We got this new apprentice at work and he keeps doing this weird grin like he knows something you don’t and in reality he probably knows fuck all that’s really important or worth knowing 

[Metal Guru]

16 minutes ago, goosey said:

We got this new apprentice at work and he keeps doing this weird grin like he knows something you don’t and in reality he probably knows fuck all that’s really important or worth knowing 

I work in schools occasionally and 15 year olds do it all the time, but you expect it.

However one of my brother in laws does it too and he’s 53! Just want to punch him.

[Pieman]

Annoyed with myself tonight for making a stupid mistake - went to speedway in Birmingham, paid for the car park on arrival, went and watched the meeting and came out afterwards to find I'd left my driver's side window open.  I was lucky the bloody car was still there!

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 22/10/2023 at 19:18, Zelandeth said:

Why are people so daft?  Charging into deep water at those sorts of speed in most vehicles is only going to end one way.

You really do have to question the air intake setup on a lot of moderns too.  We regularly used to get one bit of road by where I used to live flooded to I'd say a bit above knee high, and not one of my crappy old Metros, Saabs, a Mk IV Fiesta, Novas or my dad's Fiat Panda had any bother whatsoever with it...The only one which complained once was the Sierra which required the distributor cap attacked with WD40 on one occasion.

I did have great fun attacking it full rally style in the Skoda Estelle's though...rear engine for the win.

The amount of scenes I've seen with HGVs having issues surprises me too, have they tended to go the same way now?  I'm used to seeing their air intakes on big risers on the back of the cab - though my brain does still tend to think of things like the Ford Cargo as being a few years old...

the modern scanias do NOT have a cab rear mounted snorkel

[High Jetter]

50 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Annoyed with myself tonight for making a stupid mistake - went to speedway in Birmingham, paid for the car park on arrival, went and watched the meeting and came out afterwards to find I'd left my driver's side window open.  I was lucky the bloody car was still there!

Moar lucky it wasn't pissing down!

[Dyslexic Viking]

Managed to drop a glass of tomato sauce on the floor at the till in the food store, and it exploded, was tomato sauce and glass shards everywhere.

[Rust Collector]

51 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Managed to drop a glass of tomato sauce on the floor at the till in the food store, and it exploded, was tomato sauce and glass shards everywhere.

In a similar vein, last night I sat on the sofa to watch tv and drink a beer.

It was one of the bigger 660ml bottles, and before I drank any I managed to drop it on its side so that it poured all over myself and the sofa cushion.

In my panic to resolve the problem, I picked it up too fast and frothed the beer up so it was now frothing out like some kind of lazy volcano.

In a further bout of panic, I put my finger over the top of the bottle but didn't manage to cover it completely.

As if it couldn't get any better, my mrs was stood there watching throughout the whole debacle, having only just said to me 'are you really going to have another beer?!' right before all this happened.

[Datsuncog]

Sounds like you may have been on the receiving end of a minor hex.

In other news...

Well, bugger.

Yeah, that'll be bust then. 

It was a replacement handle fitted about six years ago, too.

Just sheared off, same as the original.

So now we have a highly creative remote door-pull mechanism install involving shoelaces, operated via the back seat...

[castros_bro]

22 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

So now we have a highly creative remote door-pull mechanism install involving shoelaces, operated via the back seat...

 

Also available for MOTs.  

 

 

[Datsuncog]

I've another pattern replacement on order from eBay for £16, delivered.

I'm quite certain it won't fit out of the box (facelift Yaris models like this have a bigger lock barrel than earlier versions, for some reason) but I'll make it fit, like last time.

Second-hand parts don't strike me as much use since they'll be at least eighteen years old now and likely failing along the same points.

I'm gonna guess the new handle will probably outlive the car...

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

 'are you really going to have another beer?!' right before all this happened.

"apparently not" would seem to be the reasonable response there, since the majority content of that beer was liberally spread across several soft furnishings in your home...

[wuvvum]

On 26/10/2023 at 10:57, castros_bro said:

 

Also available for MOTs.  

 

 

Citroën C2?

[Zelandeth]

Well that went well.

Newly fixed fuel pump lasted approximately four miles before it quit.

Assistance on the way. Just annoying.

[castros_bro]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Citroën C2?

No thanks I've already got one.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Well that went well.

Newly fixed fuel pump lasted approximately four miles before it quit.

Assistance on the way. Just annoying.

Friend gave me a run back home to grab some stuff after we pushed the car out of the bus stop into an adjacent car park to hopefully avoid a parking ticket.  

30 seconds of bodgery later and we were back up and running.

Got back home without missing a beat.

Wouldn't do that with a modern Audi with the same fault!

[andyberg]

Went out for breakfast to a local tea room. 30 mins before the end of serving. I got there and about 30-40 cyclists had just turned up. I asked if I could jump the queue to order as they weren't having breakfast, got a straight no from everyone of them😡 bloody selfish attitude.

[Bradders59]

Spending my birthday doing a 12 hour shift. Doesnt really matter in the grand scheme of things as the wife hasnt been at all well (spent 7 hours at A&E with her yesterday) so she understandably hasnt even been able to buy a birthday card.

Not bothered as her health is of course far more important.

Cheered up though when my mate from Norn Irn sent me a big box of Tayto cheese & onion and then found inside it a framed photo of me in my Chevette HS from 1979.

Didnt even know he still had the photo.

 

[loserone]

Great picture.  Hope your Mrs is ok @Bradders59

[Bradders59]

Thanks. She has ongoing issues which get bad enough for hospital treatment sometimes. Could possibly have been ok with a visit to GP this time, but they seem to do anything to avoid having a patient in front of them at our local surgery.

[sierraman]

Some bollocks on the television with Al Murray going on about the British mans love for the quality German engineering you get in new BMWs, I’ve had to turn it off. What a load of shit. 

[Bradders59]

He has never been one to let facts get in the way of the point he wants to make. Either in his comedy, or " serious" programmes.

If Warren Mitchell was still alive he would probably sue him for plagiarism  of the " ironic , working class bigot" character. 

[Pieman]

My girlfriend is also currently in hospital, albeit in intensive care after suffering a blood clot in her lung earlier this week.

Ambulanced in on Wednesday and NHS have been fantastic - have been told that if she hadn't called it and the blood clot had moved to her heart, she would not be here now. 😢 

[richardmorris]

On 26/10/2023 at 10:57, castros_bro said:

 

Also available for MOTs.  

 

 

The easiest trick for the mot is to leave the window open surely?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

My girlfriend is also currently in hospital, albeit in intensive care after suffering a blood clot in her lung earlier this week.

Ambulanced in on Wednesday and NHS have been fantastic - have been told that if she hadn't called it and the blood clot had moved to her heart, she would not be here now. 😢 

All the best for her recovery, that sounds awful.

[richardmorris]

In other grumps. Went for a short walk this morning round the new and not yet finished Sunningdale park, it was very nice with some lovely ancient trees ( 500yr old chestnut etc), and I used to live across the road from it for years when it was a conference centre. Grump is that the new builds are on the far end of pricy. £700k for a one bedroom flat, £2.7million for a detached.

https://www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/developments/berkshire/ascot/sunningdale-park
 

no one else visiting the park first thing.

 

 

[Zelandeth]

Enough with the bloody fireworks already...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

We've just come back from a family get-together and our greyhound has shit on the kitchen floor and walked it bloody everywhere (including her bed). FFS. I can only assume some twunts let off some fireworks while we were out. Light and radio were left on but it hasn't made any difference.