The grumpy thread

[maxxo]

i don't often venture into this side of my life and try to hide it

but i am fucking skint

i have £1.20 to my name

i have been trying to find work but at this present moment it is far from easy

i don't know what to do

lassie is coming for a few days at the weekend and i want to treat her but literally i do not know what to do

i'm so sick and tired of life being like this and it has massively been getting me down

i want to work, but either i get interviewed and nothing or not even a response from the applications and i can't stand it

[Mrcento]

14 hours ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Did car insurance always get more expensive if you buy it on the day or is this a recent thing? It's annoying as I always get a quote if going to view a car but as it's obviously not guaranteed I will buy it I take it out after purchase.

Yes. But it's got more extreme a difference the past few years, to such an extent, it's often worth checking how much temp insurance is to get it home/a few days, then have a policy for it to kick in later, can be a £100 difference on some cars insuring it on the day v 48hrs later.

A pure 'We think you're desperate in a rush so bend over and take it HARD' price.

[maxxo]

thoroughly looking forward to my morning spent on the telephone

landline of course

got to spend a good hour or two on hold to the DWP

then Monzo

then Paypal

 

it's going to be rather entertaining i must say

[Metal Guru]

14 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Get the quote online earlier and save it. It's usually guaranteed until it would be too late to take it out today.

Then just buy it when you decide you will take the car.

I've never had a different price when doing this

Quotes are normally valid for 30 days , so always get some as soon as you are within the 30 days before you need it.

[Volksy]

My Landlord has decided to sell the house I've been renting for the last 8 years. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to buy it.

He needs to gut and refit the hallways and upstairs before it goes up for sale, so I need to be out by the end of February. (Credit to him I guess for giving me a couple of months).

Anything I can afford is either fucked/in a shit area/miles away from work - or all of the above. Great.

 

Work booked me on a two day Mental Health First Aid course, which I completed this week. It was pretty brutal, and flagged up/triggered quite a few things that I haven't properly processed over the years.  Brain is full.

[beko1987]

2 minutes ago, Volksy said:

My Landlord has decided to sell the house I've been renting for the last 8 years. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to buy it.

He needs to gut and refit the hallways and upstairs before it goes up for sale, so I need to be out by the end of February. (Credit to him I guess for giving me a couple of months).

Anything I can afford is either fucked/in a shit area/miles away from work - or all of the above. Great.

 

Work booked me on a two day Mental Health First Aid course, which I completed this week. It was pretty brutal, and flagged up/triggered quite a few things that I haven't properly processed over the years.  Brain is full.

Sorry to hear that. I have that fear in my head more and more lately. I've been here 12 years and couldn't live within 20 miles of where I am nowadays when I have to start again. 

Good luck

[goosey]

new ladders, how the fuck am a sposed to use these 

[beko1987]

6 minutes ago, goosey said:

new ladders, how the fuck am a sposed to use these 

Needs 2 people, 1 at either end 👌

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Sorry to hear that. I have that fear in my head more and more lately. I've been here 12 years and couldn't live within 20 miles of where I am nowadays when I have to start again. 

Good luck

I'm in much the same boat.  If and when I have to move out of here I'll probably end up living in a camper van for a while - whilst I could technically afford to rent a place like this at full market rates it'd mean no cars, no holidays and beans on toast for tea every day, at least until I get my loans paid off.  Or find a better paid job, but that's a tall order around here with my skill* set.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I'm in much the same boat.  If and when I have to move out of here I'll probably end up living in a camper van for a while - whilst I could technically afford to rent a place like this at full market rates it'd mean no cars, no holidays and beans on toast for tea every day, at least until I get my loans paid off.  Or find a better paid job, but that's a tall order around here with my skill* set.

I have no deposit saved, that's my big issue. I might be able to scrape a 2 bed flat with no parking for a few hundred more than I pay here, but that price goes up every time I look (which isn't often) 

[DavieW]

Spared jail (I'm guessing) because he has a well known surname up here........

Scots businessman who 'gave impression he could buy freedom' spared jail - Daily Record

[jakebullet]

Bought the Mrs tickets for bad manners this weekend. Oh look, storm fuckface is coming, so "can I sell them instead".

On the bright side it is sold out, so stuck them on twickets and cross fingers.

[horriblemercedes]

12 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Spared jail (I'm guessing) because he has a well known surname up here........

Scots businessman who 'gave impression he could buy freedom' spared jail - Daily Record

The guy sounds like he's just thoroughly a dickhead. Even his solicitor admitted that he should be in prison 

[andy18s]

4 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Bought the Mrs tickets for bad manners this weekend. Oh look, storm fuckface is coming, so "can I sell them instead".

On the bright side it is sold out, so stuck them on twickets and cross fingers.

Buster has a few houses here in BG,and a decent restaurant iirc. 

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, DavieW said:

Spared jail (I'm guessing) because he has a well known surname up here........

Scots businessman who 'gave impression he could buy freedom' spared jail - Daily Record

Scots businessman who “ gave the impression he could buy freedom”, was proved absolutely right.

How come he was driving an 8 yer old Fiat 500 if he was so successful?

Also, sounds dodgy as fuck. I think HMRC should probably take an interest too.

[auntiemaryscanary]

1 hour ago, andy18s said:

Buster has a few houses here in BG,and a decent restaurant iirc. 

Ah, good on im! We are off to see em Sun 22nd Dec at the mighty Rock City. I've strategically booked to WFH* the next day...

[camryv6]

8 hours ago, goosey said:

new ladders, how the fuck am a sposed to use these 

Turn it the other way, i hope you don't want to reach anything high ?

[maxxo]

another job helping my elderly grandparents

never assume a cold tap in a utility room is fed from the mains despite being right next to the kitchen

i made that mistake today

turned off the water, turned off the feed to the hot water cylinder

all going well

then i removed the plastic push fit connector on the cold feed to the tap

cue a very delightful water feature, very similar to a fountain

ah, so it's fed from the cold water tank then

cue lots and lots of swearing, looking for a bucket etc

sprint into the loft and hunt for a valve which i managed to find just behind the tank which stopped the water

i'd done a nice job of making their utility room look like a pond

managed to get it sorted in the end

i'm not a big fan of plumbing i must admit

 

the question is where the fuck does the pipe that comes from the main stopcock and heads over to the utility go, and what does it feed?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, maxxo said:

another job helping my elderly grandparents

never assume a cold tap in a utility room is fed from the mains despite being right next to the kitchen

i made that mistake today

turned off the water, turned off the feed to the hot water cylinder

all going well

then i removed the plastic push fit connector on the cold feed to the tap

cue a very delightful water feature, very similar to a fountain

ah, so it's fed from the cold water tank then

cue lots and lots of swearing, looking for a bucket etc

sprint into the loft and hunt for a valve which i managed to find just behind the tank which stopped the water

i'd done a nice job of making their utility room look like a pond

managed to get it sorted in the end

i'm not a big fan of plumbing i must admit

 

the question is where the fuck does the pipe that comes from the main stopcock and heads over to the utility go, and what does it feed?

1st rule of plumbing: never assume, test first.

[Timewaster]

Driving the Mrs car today, spot something fairly big laying in the road, couldn't see what it was.

Couldn't go around it so aimed for the middle and hoped for the best.

BANG! FUCK!!!

Pulled into an entrance at the side of the road accompanied by some awful scraping noise.

Reverse a bit and it is quiet, go forwards and its horrible scraping again. Whatever it is must be stuck underneath.

Stuck a wheel up o the kerb to see if I can get it out. Look underneath the car and there is a massive chunk of  metal on the ground and oil pissing out of a split in the sump.

Fucksticks.

Recovery truck time.

[Zelandeth]

11 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Driving the Mrs car today, spot something fairly big laying in the road, couldn't see what it was.

Couldn't go around it so aimed for the middle and hoped for the best.

BANG! FUCK!!!

Pulled into an entrance at the side of the road accompanied by some awful scraping noise.

Reverse a bit and it is quiet, go forwards and its horrible scraping again. Whatever it is must be stuck underneath.

Stuck a wheel up o the kerb to see if I can get it out. Look underneath the car and there is a massive chunk of  metal on the ground and oil pissing out of a split in the sump.

Fucksticks.

Recovery truck time.

Bugger!  At least you were smart enough to look under the car though.  90% of drivers these days wouldn't have - if they even bothered to stop to retrieve whatever it was rather than just ignoring the noise!

My grump today: I have a bloody cold.  Yes it's only a cold, but I'm bloody miserable.

[comfortablynumb]

There's a reason I don't watch television 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kd7g2lxyo

If they can't be bothered to actually get something as simple as that right, why would you want to watch a 'documentary' which is probably also full of inaccuracies.

Like the war films with land rovers.

Idiots

[jakebullet]

I haz flat tyre in Mrs's car park for 2nd time. So some cunt thinks he has a reserved* space. Nothing on the dashcam unfortunately, as it switches itself off after 5 hours due to piddly smoll c1 battery getting flatish.

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

There's a reason I don't watch television 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kd7g2lxyo

If they can't be bothered to actually get something as simple as that right, why would you want to watch a 'documentary' which is probably also full of inaccuracies.

Like the war films with land rovers.

Idiots

I don't get it. Have they shipped all of those English cars to Argentina to film that?

Why not CGI out the mountains?

[Pieman]

The main picture in that article isn't from the programme, it's a pisstake made by Snetterton circuit and stuck on their social media in response to what Netflix did!

Fail upon a fail there, BBC!

[comfortablynumb]

16 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I don't get it. Have they shipped all of those English cars to Argentina to film that?

Why not CGI out the mountains?

Or even, oh I don't know, use footage from a racing circuit called SNETTERTON, which frequency does vehicle racing.

Funny that... 🤦

[dozeydustman]

Washing machine packed up. Can’t find our insurance or guarantee for it. 18 months old, probably repairable though. Not the major grump.

Go to laundrette. No parking within eleventy-billion miles. Park up, walk up with 2 big bags of laundry. No attendant so can’t leave for a service wash. No change machine or powder machine so ask shop next door can I have some pound and 50p coins in the change. “Not for the laundrette, we don’t get like the owner”. Eventually after going to several shops got some change, popped home and got the laundry liquid and fabric conditioner I forgot first time. Back at laundrette, the old bag of an attendant was there in her house coat “don’t use laundry liquid in our machines, powder only please” 😵‍💫.

Go back to shop next door for the powder I went to buy earlier.

Washed fine, went to use dryers, £5 of 50ps in each one and the stuff was still damp.

First world problems I know but everone’s crap attitude really hacked me off today.

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Washing machine packed up

Remember where you bought it? Shop may have details for w'ty, or you should have an email if bought online

[dozeydustman]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

Remember where you bought it? Shop may have details for w'ty, or you should have an email if bought online

AO. Can’t find the e-mails anywhere. I’m pretty sure we had this on our D&G plan but only our other white goods are on it.

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

AO. Can’t find the e-mails anywhere. I’m pretty sure we had this on our D&G plan but only our other white goods are on it.

If it’s only 18 months old but out of guarantee try contacting the manufacture direct (try ceoemail.com). Say how you love their products and have always bought them (as did your parents etc, lay it on thick, you recommend them to friends and family all the time,  lie , they won’t check ), so that’s why you’re so disappointed this time . Then drop hints that you might just go on social media and say how crap they are nowadays. 
They might tell you “tough” but chances are you’re get a goodwill repair.