The grumpy thread

[BorniteIdentity]

33 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

My grump today is the premature and violent demise of my WBOD.

 

Old Faithful has sacrificed himself in the way old horses do to protect its most loved ones. 

At the going down of the sun, we will remember him 🫡

[Wibble]

40 minutes ago, Chas4545 said:

Hate to be alarmist but . It will be your bank next. Call them now. If a phone stops working one of the prime reasons is so you do not get texts asking about payments. Ask me how I know.

Thanks but I don’t actually have digital banking so hopefully that’s ok.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Mr Livered said:

My grump today is the premature and violent demise of my WBOD.

That's a hell of an impact, were you movng at the time?

[Mr Livered]

38 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

That's a hell of an impact, were you movng at the time?

No, I was stationary at the side of the road because I was letting a skip lorry squeeze by me. Fella in a Merc came over the brow of the hill at OMGWTF MPH and ploughed straight into me.

I had a 5 year old in the back seat and wasn't very impressed.

 

[Surface Rust]

6 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

No, I was stationary at the side of the road because I was letting a skip lorry squeeze by me. Fella in a Merc came over the brow of the hill at OMGWTF MPH and ploughed straight into me.

I had a 5 year old in the back seat and wasn't very impressed.

 

That's pretty scary. Hope you are all OK.

[chaseracer]

On 18/12/2025 at 15:04, comfortablynumb said:

With a bit of Lamborghini espada thrown in for good measure

Iso Grifo, too.

[purplebargeken]

Fuck. You were all very lucky there.

[High Jetter]

48 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

No, I was stationary at the side of the road because I was letting a skip lorry squeeze by me. Fella in a Merc came over the brow of the hill at OMGWTF MPH and ploughed straight into me.

I had a 5 year old in the back seat and wasn't very impressed.

 

I hope the kid wasn't too impressed. Good visibility, but wet road - or total mind elsewhere?

[Mr Livered]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

Good visibility, but wet road - or total mind elsewhere?

It was a wet road, but mostly the chap just took a risk and then ran out of talent.

[24vdiamond]

4 hours ago, Mr Livered said:

My grump today is the premature and violent demise of my WBOD.

 

That's a nasty impact, glad you're both OK! Make sure you both get checked medically, I think stuff can show up a few days after from those sorts of accidents 

[High Jetter]

Is the kid OK? I take it you are, tho battered

[davehedgehog31]

Hope you and the youngster are both ok, that looks like a big impact. Hope the circumstances are suitably investigated by police too.

[Mr Livered]

Thanks all for your concern and well wishes: since a couple of people have expressed an interest, here's the wider scene. He sort of bounced off me and stuck his car in the hedge.

 

[comfortablynumb]

Glad it wasn't more serious @Mr Livered, but as others have said, get checked out.

MK1 son had a very similar accident in my RRC, He was fine for a day or so, and then the pains kicked in, he ended up with 8 weeks of physio.😕

Not trying to be the harbinger of doom, but these things take their time to show, I've had personal experience of it too

 

[comfortablynumb]

And in today's episode of "Do they know it's Christmas?" Why has £250 worth of glass top halogen hob which is no more than 13 months old, decided to stress crack 3/4 of the way over the top and stop working altogether? It's not impact damage, there's no marks, and it doesn't start at an edge.

Looks like Christmas dinner will be cooked on an 80 year old Rayburn, a built in oven and a gas camping stove.

Do they know it's Christmas? They surely do 🙄

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Mr Livered said:

Thanks all for your concern and well wishes: since a couple of people have expressed an interest, here's the wider scene. He sort of bounced off me and stuck his car in the hedge.

 

It looks as if he pushed you a fair few feet. He must have been moving at some (inappropriate) speed

[High Jetter]

51 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Looks like Christmas dinner will be cooked on an 80 year old Rayburn,

Built to last. 80 years ago it would have cooked all the dinners.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Mr Livered said:

Thanks all for your concern and well wishes: since a couple of people have expressed an interest, here's the wider scene. He sort of bounced off me and stuck his car in the hedge.

 

Not excusing the Merc driver in any way, but that looks like a very shiney surface. Why don’t they make surfaces a bit more grippier?

[Pieman]

SHIT!  You were very lucky there - relieved to see you and the young'un are OK.  Make sure to get checked out just in case as others have said.

Hope the Merc driver realises what a fuckwit he was.

[Spiny Norman]

Glad you and the lad both got out of that relatively unscathed although as others have pointed out you could feel the effects days or even weeks later so I hope you both got checked out.

Is that him standing beside it? That looks like a Mercedes A class coupe driver's haircut all day long. Morally I don't approve of these things but I'd be pumping his insurance for a  personal injury claim.

[Spiny Norman]

Robbing fucking bastards at Swiftcover. 🤬
£183 extra for 5 months cover to change from a 2001 model to a 2004 model of the same car. Policy only cost £350 initially, has insurance got crazy again or are they taking the piss? Even had the cheek to tell me I'd saved* £25 by doing it online. 

Might have been cheaper to cancel the policy and take out a new one which according to Mr. Meerkat would have been about £420. 

[Mr Livered]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

Is that him standing beside it? That looks like a Mercedes A class coupe driver's haircut all day long.

He was a bit of a walking stereotype.

[Gaffer]

3 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

I'd be pumping his insurance for a  personal injury claim.

2 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

has insurance got crazy again or are they taking the piss?

I kid, I kid! Fuck that Merc driver, may his underpants be forever infested with the fleas of a thousand camels.

[comfortablynumb]

One of son in law's work colleagues has been knocked down and killed whilst crossing the road on a zebra 

The driver has been charged with death by dangerous driving.

More families destroyed 😔

[alcyonecorporation]

I'm sorry to be a twat, but I took one look at the Mercedes and rolled my eyes. 

Hope you get properly compensated @Mr Livered and that it doesn't ruin the little one's Christmas. 
When I saw the child seat in the back I was worried. Car looks like it did its job. There are lots of lovely S40s left if you want another. 

My moan is far more trivial.

[alcyonecorporation]

Dear drunken arsehole outside the takeaway:

No, you can't spark up in the waiting room. There are kids there and it backs into the food prep area.No, stop rattling the door handle of my [locked] car asking for the cigarette lighter. It doesn't have one. It has a 12v power point. No, I don't have a lighter on me. No, don't call me a 'fucking prick' under your breath (because I can't give you something I do not possess).

No, whining, 'Aahhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhh commmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmate I just want the cigarette lighter nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn' while pulling the door handle of the car even harder in recursion makes you sound like even more of a desperate, irritating tosser.

No, drunken arsehole's OH, 'Can I just say, can I jusy say/Leave it, leave it' will not sort this out.
He's not sitting in my fucking car to fucking well spark up because he only has matches, and the wind keeps blowing them out. That really isn't my problem.
Why? Because I'm not having some random, pissed, smelly arsehole sparking up in my car and dropping ash everywhere! 
I don't have to justify myself. Cry and moan all you like. 

He shook the car so hard the bloody EKA plate dropped off and nearly went down the drain!
'I'd have just let him sit in the car'. Well, thank you for that staggering insight. Maybe if he can't go for more than two minutes without smoking, he needs professional help?
Fuck off. You sound like the parent of a spoiled child having a tantrum. 

Is it your car? No, It's my car and I'm ashmatic. Fuck off.

The pair of you: really, no, fuck off.

No, I can speak to you how I want. No, really, fuck off. I don't care.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Dear drunken arsehole outside the takeaway:

No, you can't spark up in the waiting room. There are kids there and it backs into the food prep area.

No, stop rattling the door handle of my [locked] car asking for the cigarette lighter. It doesn't have one. It has a 12v power point.

No, I don't have a lighter on me.

No, don't call me a 'fucking prick' under your breath because I can't give you something I do not possess.

'Aahhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhh commmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmate I just want the cigarette lighter nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn'

No, drunken arsehole's OH, 'can I just say/leave it leave it' will not sort this out. He's not sitting in my fucking car to spark up because he only has matches and the wind keeps blowing them out.

Why? Because I'm not having some random pissed smelly arsehole sparking up in my car and dropping ash everywhere! He shook the car so hard the bloody EKA plate dropped off and nearly went down the drain!

'I'd have just let him sit in the car'. Er, no. Is it your car? No, It's my car and I'm ashmatic. Fuck off.

The pair of you: really, no, fuck off.

No, I can speak to you how I want.

No, really, fuck off. I don't care.

Ugh, I had exactly this when waiting to collect groceries a couple of weeks ago.

They flat out refused to believe it was possible that I wouldn't have a lighter on me.

I'd not have let you use it anyway even if I had one.  Smoking is one of the things I will in no way do anything to facilitate.  

When I left they were having a blazing row with the guys there about why they couldn't collect something at the collect by car point on foot simply because "they don't have a car."

[alcyonecorporation]

'EWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEYFUCKINGWHAT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!' 

People are getting more stupid, and increasingly oblivious. 
I don't know if that's down to poor mental health, substance abuse, social media or rampant, undiagnosed SAD.

All you can do with these tossers is avoid them, and if they carry on coming at you - call the police. 

Either that, or you end up in a screaming match, repeating the same question back at them, over and over again, until they fuck off back inside their own illogical little bubble, like that mardy cunt next door to work. 
It's worse this time of year, because it's pitch black by 4pm. 

 

[chaseracer]

Nights are drawing out from tomorrow... 😉

[Tenmil Socket]

The Mrs bought me an all singing all dancing shaver/body trimmer for my birthday in November.

I was just using it to have a shave and thought, you know what, I might give my balls a trim.

Cue me getting my nutsack skin caught in the teeth and much blood resulting… not looking forward to ripping this plaster off tomorrow because the only one we had was almost the size of an eye patch.