The grumpy thread

[Markeh]

On 30/05/2025 at 16:43, beko1987 said:

Dad's had his car keyed 😡

Worryingly its his first initial but it could be a Z. He's no idea when it happened but fuck me they've done well/fuck me ev paint is thin.

He read the motability docs and a touch up pen repair is allowed so that's plan A, my stepmum is good at art so a tiny brush might do well, then I said I'd come and try to polish it down once that's done and cured.

Yeah they're not too harsh on condition when they go back, dads touched in marks (and replaced a cracked back light) on their last Qashqai after reversing into a pickup when they went to sort some paperwork for the Peugeot that replaced it - not an invisible repair, but no issues.

Seeing and hearing the condition that some Motab vehicles get returned in, that's pretty mild!

Annoyingly someone appears to have scraped the side of the E-3008, although dad believes most of it will polish out. I'm back in that for a week after tomorrow while they're away.

[artdjones]

18 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I feel for you. Did that last weekend.

Too many women have been brainwashed into thinking it’s their special day and spending north of £20k showing off to everyone they’ve ever met is the only way to do it. (Some men maybe too, but the wedding industry focussed on women and how much money can be extracted from them.) 
Normally intelligent women act like they’re five again and want to be a princess for the day.  Luckily my wife , didn’t think this way , and my FIL paid for our garage to be built instead.

I've got the bill somewhere for my mother's reception in 1956, somewhere between £7 and £8. Somewhere around £150 in present day money. If you trawl through our 50s family photos, none of the brides had special wedding dresses, but all had bought very smart suits that they could wear for other occasions. Including all the women who were in paid work, which was nearly all of them. 

That's what maturity looks like.

[JMotor]

Ever looked at a job on a car and thought "Yep, that's going to go wrong".

Trying to bleed the clutch on a '02 Saab 93. Same car I had been doing welding jobs on. Thought I'd offer my help with this operation.

Master cylinder shit itself mid job and won't pump fluid. Car had been laid up for ten years, which might be why it did. 

Looks a full on pain in the arse to replace. Well in the aspect it'll be an arse grovelling about in the foot well.

Glad it wasn't the cylinder buried in the gearbox that went pop! So that's something. 

[Bren]

Wife has just had emergency tooth extraction.

£400.

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Bren said:

Wife has just had emergency tooth extraction.

£400.

Those pliers have repaid you!

Seriously, hope she's OK

[Bren]

5 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Those pliers have repaid you!

Seriously, hope she's OK

She couldn't be more complimentary of the treatment she received.

[Lord Sterling]

On 31/05/2025 at 01:36, Metal Guru said:

Too many women have been brainwashed into thinking it’s their special day and spending north of £20k showing off to everyone they’ve ever met is the only way to do it. (Some men maybe too, but the wedding industry focussed on women and how much money can be extracted from them.) 
Normally intelligent women act like they’re five again and want to be a princess for the day.  Luckily my wife , didn’t think this way , and my FIL paid for our garage to be built instead.

Not just women (and some men) but whole families. A friend of mine who is of part Ghanaian descent is looking to marry a girl from Ghana, but due to traditions and strict formalities, he is having to save a huge amount of money (as above, north of £20k) for the wedding when in fact, both him and his wife just want something small, but his family are expecting it to be a huge occasion. 

When I got married, my wedding was the cheapest thing ever, it took place on my uncle's apartment with my cousin, his wife, my aunty and a few cheap snacks. I even had to borrow my uncle's suit because Fatha_Sterling decided that I didn't need to take mine.

[hairnet]

henry moron on the cricket - no - cricket people not a journalist ffs

least its not rainford brent or hartley or vaughan

steven finn ftw

 

[IronStar]

Re: weddings

Do you have tradition / expectation of giving money or gifts to newlyweds? It’s a thing here, so usually wedding guests essentially pay off the entire thing, and there’s usually some money left over on top to do things afterwards. 

[horriblemercedes]

I think I've only ever been to three weddings. Two weddings of aunts and my brother's wedding.

 

Among my friends, I can only think of one who's married and he was married before I knew him. Others are single or in serious relationships but just aren't interested in getting married.

[Bren]

Sat in the local ( and excellent) walk in centre.

For two weeks had a really productive cough and runny nose and some sinus pain - I am prescribed antihistamine and nasal spray but it's done nothing - it's affecting my sleep and I woke up this morning feeling nauseous so I assume it's a sinus infection. We were away camping last week - between this and my wife’s tooth I will be glad to go back to work.

[captain_70s]

I've a mate's wedding coming up, think I'll be about £500 in the hole between the stag do and wedding itself.

Not an insignificant sum, a few years ago I simply wouldn't have been able to afford it...

[chadders]

18 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Re: weddings

Do you have tradition / expectation of giving money or gifts to newlyweds? It’s a thing here, so usually wedding guests essentially pay off the entire thing, and there’s usually some money left over on top to do things afterwards. 

I got gifts from my team and others I worked with when I got married, along with presents from friends. My wife was the same.

I imagine the same will happen when my youngest son ties the knot, there'll be a collection at the labs he works at and his fiancee's research co..

It's not competitive though as it apparently can be in other societies in order to 'prove' how wealthy you are. Mind you reading some posts on here maybe it's not just other societies, just people I don't mix with.

[IronStar]

2 minutes ago, chadders said:

I got gifts from my team and others I worked with when I got married, along with presents from friends. My wife was the same.

I imagine the same will happen when my youngest son ties the knot, there'll be a collection at the labs he works at.

It's not competitive though as it apparently can be in other societies in order to 'prove' how wealthy you are.

It’s not really competitive here anymore, but used to be 50+ years ago. It’s now mostly turned into a cash in an (often unmarked) envelope, as playing a guessing game of what do these newlyweds need, and inevitably getting it wrong, is just pointless. 
The expectation is that minimum sum is covering the price of you seat(s) in a restaurant , and anything over is dependent on how much you can afford/want to give.

[chadders]

2 minutes ago, IronStar said:

It’s not really competitive here anymore, but used to be 50+ years ago. It’s now mostly turned into a cash in an (often unmarked) envelope, as playing a guessing game of what do these newlyweds need, and inevitably getting it wrong, is just pointless. 
The expectation is that minimum sum is covering the price of you seat(s) in a restaurant , and anything over is dependent on how much you can afford/want to give.

At one stage the bride and groom used to do a wedding list of things they wanted and the attendees would decide amongst themselves who bought what.

It might still be the case but, as its nearly 40 years since I got married, I'm a bit out of touch.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

34 minutes ago, chadders said:

At one stage the bride and groom used to do a wedding list of things they wanted and the attendees would decide amongst themselves who bought what.

We (she) did the list, but the attendees bought what they felt like.

A few of them then got Christmas/birthday presents that they might recognise.

Some are still not talking to us 26 years later.

RESULT! 👍

[junkyarddog]

15 hours ago, Bren said:

Wife has just had emergency tooth extraction.

£400.

Worth every penny.

[Dyslexic Viking]

The washing machine just died. Saving up money to fix the Mercedes looks harder than I thought.

[Pieman]

I think I've been to two weddings in my adult life.  One was two of my best friends and was outdoors in the one really hot day in a shit summer, and was a lovely day.  The other was the sister of one of the previous couple, and I barely paid any attention to the wedding cos it was held in the clubroom at Brooklands and I spent the whole day geeking out in the museum.  I can't remember if I spent anything on either of them.

As for my own wedding, that will never happen because of my general repulsiveness to women, which I don't have a problem with.

 

[SunnySouth]

54 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The washing machine just died. Saving up money to fix the Mercedes looks harder than I thought.

Well I’ve heard of Daewoo domestic applicances but I didn’t realise Mercedes made washing machines!

In all seriousness; what a ballache. Hopefully it isn’t terminal? What make actually is it? We got a Samsung machine and dryer and it turns out they’re both shite, repair guy even said so! 

[Dyslexic Viking]

8 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

In all seriousness; what a ballache. Hopefully it isn’t terminal? What make actually is it? We got a Samsung machine and dryer and it turns out they’re both shite, repair guy even said so! 

The motor has failed it seems and it is a 12 year old Hoover so a cheap machine. So it's done but I can't really complain it's been good, it's just a bad time for it to happen now.

[comfortablynumb]

@Dyslexic Vikingattach drum of washing machine to Merc rear wheel? 😁

Seriously, hope you get sorted soon, not just the motor brushes is is?

[Dyslexic Viking]

8 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

, not just the motor brushes is is?

I don't know, the motor is hot and it's smoking and smelling burnt. I don't feel it's worth fixing considering its age and it's a cheap machine and I don't know where to find parts either.

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The washing machine just died. Saving up money to fix the Mercedes looks harder than I thought.

No cheap ones on fb marketplace to tide you over for a year or so? Bung half a pack of soda crystals through a boil wash first then carry on!

You might even get lucky* and find your exact model and can spend an enjoyable* weekend making one good one out of 2 😂

[artdjones]

11 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I don't know, the motor is hot and it's smoking and smelling burnt. I don't feel it's worth fixing considering its age and it's a cheap machine and I don't know where to find parts either.

If it has brushes it's worth pulling them out and checking the state of them. They are cheap. There are online parts suppliers.

[DavieW]

Just advertise it correctly Matketplace arsehole.

 

[goosey]

Neighbour is being “funny” as I filled her wheelie bin full of broken paving slabs to stop the wind blowing it over 

[ruffgeezer]

'I know, I'll just change that knock sensor out for a new one.'

 

'Fuck.'

 

It seems I'm not the first one to visit this sensor, the old one came out without a struggle but seemed to loosen off quickly - because there are no threads in the hole.

Inlet off, helicoil kit on order.

[reb]

The damned greenscreen I bought is too small for me to use standing up.

Sheer heightism is what it is.

[comfortablynumb]

Dig a hole? 😁