The grumpy thread

[comfortablynumb]

13 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Isn't that exactly what we are encouraged to do? Some idiots just don't understand it

Never actually seen it promoted, which is probably part of the reason people act the way they do?

[horriblemercedes]

1 minute ago, comfortablynumb said:

Never actually seen it promoted, which is probably part of the reason people act the way they do?

 

What about these signs?

[Mally]

ASDA have nicked 1-1/2" off my zip fly.  I need to unfasten my belt now, and my phone an wallet are attached to my belt!

Can't take them back, I've shortened one pair and taken labels off the other. No wonder it's 2 for £16.

[cobblers]

28 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Grump for me. My phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognise. Normally I ignore them. They can leave a message and I'll call back, or they can send a text (much preferred).

However, my aging mum has recently been leaving her phone at home and locking herself out. She has called me a couple of times from a phone she has borrowed from a stranger. I thought I should answer it, in case it was one of those.

 

 

First of all, Dan will get a bollocking for not checking that he can give my number out, but why do cunts like that think that it's ok to behave this way? He's a client, he has been told by my office and my email that I'm not available, and so he lies to a coincidental, mutual friend to get my phone number. I've blocked the number, but I'm sure that if he wants to contact me in my free time, he will just borrow a phone to do it.

My personal mobile number "found its way out" to a few customers years ago and people would pester the fuck out of me at all hours. Nowadays I absolutely *do not* answer the phone unless I recognise the number. My voicemail is "Hi, this is Dave's personal phone number - if you're looking for XYZ Electronics, please call the office on 01xxxxxxx. Do not leave a voicemail"

Yesterday I was driving to see my nan in hospital, she's broke her hip. I got a missed call off a number I don't recognise. Then again, and again. 10 calls over the space of 5 minutes, plus a few voicemails. I don't have my phone connected for bluetooth calls, so I pulled over worrying it was urgent from the hospital or something, and just as I was about to call back, they rang again.

"Hi Dave just wondering what your business address is, I need to post something for you to fix"

"I'm not at work right now, please call the office"

"Can't you just tell me what it is?"

"Couldn't you have just called the office?"

I might have lost a customer, but I don't think that it was the type of customer we'll miss.

 

[horriblemercedes]

5 minutes ago, cobblers said:

My personal mobile number "found its way out" to a few customers years ago and people would pester the fuck out of me at all hours. Nowadays I absolutely *do not* answer the phone unless I recognise the number. My voicemail is "Hi, this is Dave's personal phone number - if you're looking for XYZ Electronics, please call the office on 01xxxxxxx. Do not leave a voicemail"

Yesterday I was driving to see my nan in hospital, she's broke her hip. I got a missed call off a number I don't recognise. Then again, and again. 10 calls over the space of 5 minutes, plus a few voicemails. I don't have my phone connected for bluetooth calls, so I pulled over worrying it was urgent from the hospital or something, and just as I was about to call back, they rang again.

"Hi Dave just wondering what your business address is, I need to post something for you to fix"

"I'm not at work right now, please call the office"

"Can't you just tell me what it is?"

"Couldn't you have just called the office?"

I might have lost a customer, but I don't think that it was the type of customer we'll miss.

 

I've been so careful not to let my phone number get out to people, but my friend of 20 years had it long before I knew this customer. I haven't spoken to him yet, but I will, because it's really not ok to give out any contact details without permission.

 

I had this one recently. At the end of an unrelated phone call:

"While I've got you, can you give me Bob Smith's number?"

"I'll ask him and let you know."

"Don't you have it there?"

"Yes, I have it, but I won't give out his number without permission."

"Oh, this bloody data protection shit. Nightmare, isn't it?"

"I wouldn't give it out without asking him even if there were no regulations."

"Ok then, get him to call me."

"I'll pass the message to him."

"When will he call me?"

"I don't even know if he will, let alone when."

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50 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

 

What about these signs?

Didn't say there weren't any, I even said I'd seen them in jersey, just that I hadn't seen them recently 

[horriblemercedes]

7 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Didn't say there weren't any, I even said I'd seen them in jersey, just that I hadn't seen them recently 

That's fair enough. We must go to different places...I feel that I see them all the time!

[comfortablynumb]

I wish I saw them more......🤔

[Metal Guru]

7 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

I wish I saw them more......🤔

They’re certainly not at all roadworks, not that matters to the road captains. HGV drivers still straddle both lanes too, their bit of power over car drivers that doesn’t involve killing them.

[hairnet]

some jock twat drove into the side of my car two hours ago

no it wasnt @320touring

i hate tesco

i have their details

and even tho i told the insurance and said it was unlikely i would make a claim when i can clearly check for damage (thanks jock weather)

they said youre entitled to a rental car

the only thing that made me larf is not that its a local place here

its the local place at home i regularly use

fuck fridays

[purplebargeken]

Discovered a detail sander in the shed.  Nice size, cordless too. Can I find the charger, can I fuck. Ok, let’s see if I can find one on the internet. Can I fuck. 

[comfortablynumb]

8 minutes ago, purplebargeken said:

Discovered a detail sander in the shed.  Nice size, cordless too. Can I find the charger, can I fuck. Ok, let’s see if I can find one on the internet. Can I fuck. 

Universal jobby? One of those with interchangeable plugs and voltages, worked for me on something a while ago 

[purplebargeken]

It’s one of those pronged slide into the charger things. I’ll wade into the shed tomorrow and have a proper look but confidence is low.

[purplebargeken]

Sigh

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, purplebargeken said:

Sigh

This one?

167285873070 ebay

[purplebargeken]

Hmm. Maybe. Will search the shed and outhouse tomorrow and see if anything is discovered.

[GeorgeB]

13 hours ago, paulplom said:

Greggs at the Bigg Market in Newcastle has a pair of bouncers on the door at the weekend.

Was this in response to the soap character question. Phwoar!

[GMcD]

House is undergoing a rewire. Just started today. I went over tonight to check progress and make sure the place was locked up.  They've only gone and chopped a hatch through the main bedroom floor.

Simply no need for them to cut up the floor when there is full basement access from the boiler room to every room except the kitchen as it's concrete.  They've been shown this twice before starting.  No mention of chopping the floor.

I had already chased the walls and run pull wires down the back of each old and additional socket location, so it should be a straightforward job. 

Had they informed me they needed a hatch I would have told them to use the box room. 

Perhaps I'm being over dramatic but I'm really quite annoyed as I wanted to sand / wax a few of them, the floors in every room were mint as they have never been lifted (why would they have been lifted when it has a FUCKING BASEMENT), not a squeak from any of them and now they've chopped them.  

[High Jetter]

18 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Correct , extra points for character & soap.

Charlene, Neighbours. Utterly pointless.

[IronStar]

Got a call off a chap I’m renting parking space from. Random 10€ price bump, because he thinks he should buy an extra lunch every 6 months off my money or something. 

I pay 6 months upfront so I don’t have to deal with this bullshit. I called him exactly 0 times to complain about things even though the garage is anything but tidy despite me paying the maintenance bills.

Tenner a month isn’t going to bankrupt me or make him rich, so why the fuck would you bother and annoy someone that never calls you for anything, pays cash so you don’t report that income or pay tax, however measly it may be, and goes on his marry way?

I told him I’m paying the old price upfront, paying the new price but he can have the maintenance bills, or switching to monthly. He told me he’ll have a think and call me back by the end of the day.

Surprisingly* he didn’t call back.

I hate this random bs.

[reb]

4 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

Discovered a detail sander in the shed.  Nice size, cordless too. Can I find the charger, can I fuck. Ok, let’s see if I can find one on the internet. Can I fuck. 

I might have a suitable charger. I'll have a look. It was for a Guild drill but the battery gave up and I have a makita now so the charger is surplus to requirements. Fingers crossed it's the same!

[sheffcortinacentre]

53 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Got a call off a chap I’m renting parking space from. Random 10€ price bump, because he thinks he should buy an extra lunch every 6 months off my money or something. 

I pay 6 months upfront so I don’t have to deal with this bullshit. I called him exactly 0 times to complain about things even though the garage is anything but tidy despite me paying the maintenance bills.

Tenner a month isn’t going to bankrupt me or make him rich, so why the fuck would you bother and annoy someone that never calls you for anything, pays cash so you don’t report that income or pay tax, however measly it may be, and goes on his marry way?

I told him I’m paying the old price upfront, paying the new price but he can have the maintenance bills, or switching to monthly. He told me he’ll have a think and call me back by the end of the day.

Surprisingly* he didn’t call back.

I hate this random bs.

It's more commonly known as being a greedy bastard.

[320touring]

6 hours ago, hairnet said:

some jock twat drove into the side of my car two hours ago

no it wasnt @320touring

i hate tesco

i have their details

and even tho i told the insurance and said it was unlikely i would make a claim when i can clearly check for damage (thanks jock weather)

they said youre entitled to a rental car

the only thing that made me larf is not that its a local place here

its the local place at home i regularly use

fuck fridays

Glad you are ok

 

And glad it wasn't me that hit you

[Split_Pin]

9 hours ago, GMcD said:

They've been shown this twice before starting.  No mention of chopping the floor.

Most tradesmen are great but we've had a few in that are just plain thick and can't see past their next sausage roll.

[BorniteIdentity]

11 hours ago, GMcD said:

House is undergoing a rewire. Just started today. I went over tonight to check progress and make sure the place was locked up.  They've only gone and chopped a hatch through the main bedroom floor.

Simply no need for them to cut up the floor when there is full basement access from the boiler room to every room except the kitchen as it's concrete.  They've been shown this twice before starting.  No mention of chopping the floor.

I had already chased the walls and run pull wires down the back of each old and additional socket location, so it should be a straightforward job. 

Had they informed me they needed a hatch I would have told them to use the box room. 

Perhaps I'm being over dramatic but I'm really quite annoyed as I wanted to sand / wax a few of them, the floors in every room were mint as they have never been lifted (why would they have been lifted when it has a FUCKING BASEMENT), not a squeak from any of them and now they've chopped them.  

That would be enough to make me fire them on the spot and put the house on the market. Fucking Mongtards without an ounce of sympathy or savvy. 

[IronStar]

10 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

It's more commonly known as being a greedy bastard.

What an absolute moron.

Switched to monthly, because squeezing tiny bit more over X months as opposed to getting a lump sum you can go and spend on a big ticket item (or, heavens forbid, put into savings account) makes all the sense in the world. 🤦‍♂️

[Merryck]

Fucking Land Rover lights have stopped working.

It's fucking endless with this shit. Just spent nearly £3k to get it back on the road after the gearbox fucked itself. Couldn't do it myself as I don't have the space.

Then because I'm a fucking idiot I managed to set fire to the engine bay. £90 and a day off work and that's all sorted.

Three weeks or so later the headlights have stopped working. Ok, fine, not a big deal but I don't want to have to fucking stand out there in the rain trying to work out what's gone wrong this time.

I've got too much shit. Too many cars. Micra's still not running again and I have no idea why. I've got a car trailer on the driveway taking up too much space. I've got a Mini at my mum's she needs gone, fully in pieces. The Midget's at a friend's house in his garage, he wants to work on it but has no experience. I haven't got the time to do it, so he's going to get fed up with it being there and I'll have to find somewhere else to put it. Both cars need welding, so I need a space to do that if I'm going to keep them.

I don't want to give up all these things that I treasure but I can't see how I'm ever going to actually be able to enjoy them.

So now I'm on my laptop trying to work out reasons why the Land Rover's headlights have stopped working when I'm meant to be spending the day with my son, and I'm in a foul fucking mood now, and I don't know if I'll be able to get myself out of it.

FUCK.

Oh, and yesterday I cracked one of my teeth on a mint humbug and fucking swallowed it, so the weekend didn't get off to a good start.

[DavieW]

Not a grump as such, more a WTF. Out with ny mate last night for a few beers. 

Every pint I had, the head disappeared soon after pouring and didn't leave foam on the sides. My mate, who was drinking the same beer from the same tap, had a perfect pint every time. 

[bramz7]

Boiler failed it's safety inspection on Thursday so I've had no hot water since. Luckily, or not, I have a power shower. Except the pressure is like being dribbled on. The other, better shower, runs off the boiler supplier hot water. 

Neither my landlord or letting agent have been in contact. Now I'm not expecting it to be fixed right away, but a courtesy email would have been nice, especially when they want to increase the rent yet again in April. The house next door, which he also owns, has been empty since the last tenants left a month ago, maybe partly because the rent is too high and the heating is controlled by a range cooker! Quaint in the countryside I'm sure, but in Basingstoke it's borderline mental. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

Not a grump as such, more a WTF. Out with ny mate last night for a few beers. 

Every pint I had, the head disappeared soon after pouring and didn't leave foam on the sides. My mate, who was drinking the same beer from the same tap, had a perfect pint every time. 

Your glass wasn’t rinsed properly. You were drinking Fairy Liquid shandies last night. Don’t go to far from a toilet today!