The grumpy thread

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I found this clip on Yatube! earlier.

 

 

Decided to take a chance and buy the dvd.

Its in Italian of course but sadly the only subtitles are...

 

 

"Italian for the hard of hearing"

 

i like the front seat that appears at 38 secs.

[michiel]

Overslept yesterday, jumped on my bike and raced to work - until I hit some unexpected ice on the first corner and both wheels went, fell mostly on the side of my head. Spent the rest of the day at home, clutching a bag of frozen peas...

 

Got a big bump and a nice black eye now, but luckily that is all.

[synx508]

Went to open my garage, unlocked it, turned the handle and heard a metallic "plink". Tiny but crucial parts fell off the locking mechanism. I am now locked out of my own garage.

 

Luckily the garage contains nothing that I require urgently, or at all. I'm tempted to pretend it's not my garage and forget it.

[Cavcraft]

Bosses (*not mine): if you're going to pay someone the least amount possible, screw them over, lie to them, get them doing what they shouldn't be doing and are untrained for and generally be a shark at least pay them on time you unscrupulous thieving ****.

[messerschmitt owner]

Broadband!

 

I've no BB at home till I get a new router and the cheapest way of getting a new router is changing over Broadband provider - two weeks minimum from today! How will I cope?

[sporty-shite]

o2, set of incompetent thieving fuckers.

 

Tell me that I'm fine to use new phone on home wireless without data bundle, then charge me for using new phone on home wireless.

 

Promise to refund wrongly charged data charges, then phone me to tell me they won't, because someone "wasn't authorised to agree refund".

 

Arrange to add data bundle to both (mine & Mrs S) phones on the account. Incompetent twats only add it to my phone, so we're charged for Mrs S's. £60 overcharge, so they offer £25 back.

 

And I'm stuck with this set of amateurs for the next 18 months.

 

Nasty letter to follow.

 

 

 

In other grumps:

 

Administering eye drops to a four month old baby does not please me.

[Minimad5]

Administering eye drops to a four month old baby does not please me.

 

Hope the little one is okay Chris

[DCLane]

Went to Evans Cycles today to look for a new bike.

 

Tell them I don't want a brightly coloured bike for middle-aged fat-people's races, instead one that's designed as a tourer. Looking for full-size mudguards, aluminium frame, decent frameset. Not going to be used for sportives, rather commuting and travelling. Budget approx £1k. Which considering my bikes usually cost £50 is a fortune.

 

What do they show me?

 

A £750 sportive bike in red, white and black with red wheels and white tyres. Also, it's an old model which they're clearly trying to shift. Dosy %*"&!$

 

Won't be buying from them.

[Louise2cv]

This is going to sound really tight and maybe its hormones, but I am increasingly bored of people phoning, calling round and emailing to "see if anything's happened" or "are you in labour yet?".

 

NO NO NO.

 

I am week over due, I do not need reminding, I haven't had a baby and I won't have a baby and forget to tell people. I imagine when I do go into labour grabbing the phone and ringing round to let people know is unlikely to appeal.

 

Hassling me in the meantime is just rubbing my face in the fact it hasn't happened.

 

And Breathe.

 

I was quite relaxed about being overdue until yesterday, but now I'm in a full on moody. Maybe thats a "sign".

[Guest]

Just tell them you've decided to put back the birth until 2012 due to scheduling concerns.

[Vin]

Yesterday morning I was on the M180 when the car in front of me hit a swan

 

We were in the inside lane and he hit the swan with his left wing, so the swan had just strayed onto the carriageway. Neither of us were boxed in, as the other two lanes were clear, so I managed to move out to avoid the 'staggering' swan. The swan got on the hard shoulder before the truck behind me took it out. I reckon it was a gonner though cos he hit it at 60/70 mph.

 

I'm still trying to work out how he managed it though.....How do you hit something like a swan in broad daylight on a clear road, with more than enough room to avoid it.....

 

When I passed the car (a 307) the driver had an headset on and 2 satnav/gameboy things suckered to his windscreen. Maybe he wasn't paying any attention. God Knows

[Guest]

Maybe he just doesn't like swans.

[Alexg]

Just tell them you've decided to put back the birth until 2012 due to scheduling concerns.

 

Just tell them the birth failed due to 'n/s/f shock worn to excess' and 'seatbelt anchorage excessively corroded'. Rebirth after necessary repairs

[Louise2cv]

If the moody I'm in now is anything to go by I'm not sure I want to be in the same room as me either!

[Lankytim]

If the moody I'm in now is anything to go by I'm not sure I want to be in the same room as me either!

 

Are you sure you haven't had the baby yet? Maybe you'd better check, just in case.

[garycox]

Word to your mother.

 

Word to your brother.

 

WTF does this mean?

[dollywobbler]

Is anyone else having a problem with hitting the Submit button and having it go into Preview instead? I'm using Firefox. It's doing my head in! A few times, you've missed out on my pearls of wisdom (!) because I've not actually posted what I was trying to post.

[Richard]

Is anyone else having a problem with hitting the Submit button and having it go into Preview instead? I'm using Firefox. It's doing my head in! A few times, you've missed out on my pearls of wisdom (!) because I've not actually posted what I was trying to post.

 

It does that if somebody else posted while you were composing your post.

[dollywobbler]

Oooh, that's a bit fancy. Maybe this should be in the 'brilliant features' thread then!

[M'coli]

It does that if somebody else posted while you were composting your post.

Edited for alcohol.

[scaryoldcortina]

Taxis

 

My son goes to school near Thirsk... this is 120 miles away. He travels in a Local Authority contracted taxi, back in september the contract went to a different firm (presumably because of a lower bid) and service has declined dramatically. They are always late, rude when you question them and sometimes fail to turn up at all. Once they failed to collect him from school on a friday (cue mad dash down the country) and today again they have not showed up. I rang at 8, got an excuse about the car not starting! We were promised a taxi within half an hour, it is now 9.00, no sign, looks like I'm driving him down myself (again).

 

I have already emailed county hall about this, obviously....

 

Oh, and the taxi they send is always either a 6 year old beat to death zafira or an equally dead 5 year old vectra. The firm is called Pratt's Taxis

 

edit at 9.10 - the taxi turned up while we were putting his stuff in my car. It was the Vectra.

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Taxis

The firm is called Pratt's Taxis

 

edit at 9.10 - the taxi turned up while we were putting his stuff in my car. It was the Vectra.

 

at least it arrived sometime

 

just passed through Durham City - took me 40 minutes

 

this might explain why it was late (Pratts is based in Gilesgate )

[AnthonyG]

Your son travels 240 miles a day to go to school?

 

Or is this a weekly thing?

[scaryoldcortina]

Your son travels 240 miles a day to go to school?

 

Or is this a weekly thing?

 

 

weekly. He boards monday-friday, comes home at the weekend. Today was return to school after xmas (mon and tue were "teacher training" days)

[Guest]

Watched some fairly new Discovery repeatedly kerb its wheels as it attempted to be parallel-parked by some little businesswoman today, then noticed a cling sticker near the tax disc to the effect of "Carbon Emissions Offset". What a complete crock.

 

I would have loved to bundle her into the boot and have it crushed via some sort of mobile crushing device, but to be honest I wanted to go to Hoffmans and buy a sausage roll.

[pompei]

On the subject of bundling a woman in the boot, one of the most chilling moments in cinema is in Get Carter where the car with the girl in the boot is pushed into the Tyne ...

[dollywobbler]

Pompei - probably best you don't watch the video to Eminem's Stan then, where that's exactly what happens to Dido...

[Doctormop]

On the subject of bundling a woman in the boot, one of the most chilling moments in cinema is in Get Carter where the car with the girl in the boot is pushed into the Tyne ...

 

A sad end to a decent looking Sunbeam Alpine as well; apparently the film crew had to remove the engine transmission and all potentially toxic parts before dumping it in the drink.

The film also features some serious mk2 Jag/Mk2 Cortina abuse, the series Land Rover survives intact iirc

[eddyramrod]

You may remember me mentioning a Honda scooter that was donated to a little appeal we had going on over here. I kind of took responsibility for it, got it a new battery and so on. We took it to the Transport Department today in the back of my pickup (it's a bit of a wrestle to get it in, but does go). Of course the moment we tried to offload it, caught the back mudguard on the tailgate and broke the number plate. FFS...

[chester drawers]

I am increasingly bored of people phoning, calling round and emailing to "see if anything's happened" or "are you in labour yet?".

 

Some pramshite. How about getting one of these?

 

 

Hint of 2CV about those swoopy lines?