The grumpy thread

[Aston Martin]

Needed an eye test.....

It was a young lass..... Holding the machines while an optician was at fucking home on a webcam.

 

So fuck Specsavers 

[Knotty Ash Towers]

18 hours ago, goosey said:

Is there anything else as piss poor and miserable as receiving a box of Quality Street ? 
 

 

Being in the same room as Holly Johnson...

[Leyland Worldmaster]

20 hours ago, goosey said:

Is there anything else as piss poor and miserable as receiving a box of Quality Street ? 
 

 

Cunts that eat mine and leave the empty wrappers in the box. Boils my piss, innit.

[GeordieInExile]

The ST170 needs a clutch. 

Firstly, the garage told me the flywheel was looking a bit worn. A grand for a dual mass flywheel. No ta, please clean up the old one and I'll cross my fingers. 670 for the clutch plus labour, suits me. I sold a week of leave back to my employer so I'll use that money, happy days. 

Then they rang the next day to day the clutch they'd ordered didn't fit. They'd sourced the correct one but it would be an extra 100 quid. Fine.

... Then they rang again a couple days later to tell me that one also didn't fit. They've found a third option. They will try and keep the price down but it'll be a touch dearer again. 

There's also the chance the third one isn't the right one, in which case I think I'm gonna have to source a decent second hand clutch (and flywheel because why the fuck not) ... once I'm sure it's the right fit.

So that's the reason these are still really underpriced for a quick Ford...

 

[DSdriver]

Words  on my phone and computers that cause fear and stress:  "your software has been updated"

Merry Christmas everyone.

[comfortablynumb]

200 mile round trip to my mum's place, to try to organise a stairlift survey whilst she's in hospital recovering from a broken hip, at 91.

The bastard never showed, and no contact, despite a confirmation call yesterday. Until we're on our way home, when halfway into the trip I get a call saying 'your surveyor is going to be with you later on!'

Yeah, your appointment was between 2 and 3, don't ring me and tell me that half an hour afterwards 

Bet that's one call they don't use for training ..🤬

[goosey]

20 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Cunts that eat mine and leave the empty wrappers in the box. Boils my piss, innit.

As kids we would wrap the empty wrapper around a Lego Cuboid before putting them back in the box 

[Mr Livered]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

As kids we would wrap the empty wrapper around a Lego Cuboid before putting them back in the box 

We used to put Brussels sprouts in ferrero rocher wrappers.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Mr Livered said:

We used to put Brussels sprouts in ferrero rocher wrappers.

Was that when you had a job on the production line? 🤣

[hairnet]

On 23/12/2025 at 11:06, Aston Martin said:

Needed an eye test.....

It was a young lass..... Holding the machines while an optician was at fucking home on a webcam.

 

So fuck Specsavers 

what kinda horseshit is that

[DavieW]

On 23/12/2025 at 11:06, Aston Martin said:

Needed an eye test.....

It was a young lass..... Holding the machines while an optician was at fucking home on a webcam.

 

So fuck Specsavers 

Was she pretty though?

[Aston Martin]

12 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Was she pretty though?

 

 

[comfortablynumb]

18 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Was she pretty though?

He couldn't see, needed an eye test...🤣

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, hairnet said:

what kinda horseshit is that

Ocular shit!

[MikeR]

A bit cheesed off I could not find a festive pot noodle this year .... 

 

[iainrcz]

The corner shop is open at the end of our road. So of course there's a steady stream of people parking like fucking imbeciles so they can go in.

On Christmas day.

If you're not local enough to walk, how do you even know it's open?!

 

[myglaren]

14 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

The corner shop is open at the end of our road. So of course there's a steady stream of people parking like fucking imbeciles so they can go in.

On Christmas day.

If you're not local enough to walk, how do you even know it's open?!

 

Ours is a couple of hundred yards away and several of my neighbours drive there and back.  Ludicrous.

[iainrcz]

33 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Ours is a couple of hundred yards away and several of my neighbours drive there and back.  Ludicrous.

Lazy buggers!

[UltraWomble]

Must have reported about two dozen blatant scam car adverts on facebollox marketplace today. 

Fuck all will be done however, but it's fricking annoying having to sift through that shite to find proper adverts

[Markeh]

I know modern telly is dire at the best of times but heck, the TV has been particularly poor tonight!

[IronStar]

Italian service manuals.

Power windows on my 155 are intermittent. So, like a sensible human, I went to find a service manual. The service manual covers the components, the diagram, the lot of it, and talks about fuse G310. So I go to the section called "Fusebox" where you'd probably expect to find all the fuses and fuseboxes within the car, their location and fuses labeled. 

It only contains the main fusebox diagram. Power window fuses are not there. That is not covered by the section called "Fusebox"

What the hell. Seriously. What. The. Hell.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Markeh said:

I know modern telly is dire at the best of times but heck, the TV has been particularly poor tonight!

Watched a programme about Billy Connolly tonight. Clips were mainly Parky (he was on there 18 times), and the “An audience with ..” shows, so they showed a lot of the celeb audience. Couldn’t help going , dead, dead, dead, are they ? , alive?,who?  dead, dead…

[Metal Guru]

Stopped at a local beauty spot for a coffee and mince pie and was annoyed at the amount of litter. A lot of plastic water bottles , the sooner they are banned the better, it’s Scotland not the f@cking Sahara ffs, but what annoyed me the most was flowers left as tributes , with the cellophane still on. I’m not against these tributes unless they involve people stopping in dangerous places on roads to place them, but are people really so stupid that they can’t see they’re just adding more litter.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes they are.

[DavieW]

Hate these milk jugs with a passion. Surely after 200 odd years, designers can make a jug that actually pours milk into the cup instead of all over the saucer and table. Hateful things. 

[chaseracer]

They're cheap to make.  This is the only consideration.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, chaseracer said:

They're cheap to make.  This is the only consideration.

And if they’re horrible, no one will steal them either.

[ETCHY]

Why did the fuckwitt from Yodel leave my package in full view on the doorstep when he could just have put it through the letter box !? He rang the bell left it & buggered off within 2 mins. There were no lights visible so he didn't know I was in.

Knob.

[Pieman]

5 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

Yodel

You've answered your own question there.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Pieman said:

You've answered your own question there.

Yup. I have a shop on a busy main road, on a high pavement - it's tricky to park outside and you then have to walk past several shopfronts to access the steps up to pavement level. The shop is street No XX, the maisonette above is XXa but is only accessible from the rear of the block. Yodel often leave parcels at the shop, addressed to the flat. The daft thing is, delivering to the maisonette is easier - reverse up the service road behind the shops, jump out and run up the stairs to the flat door where they'll see a sign telling them to leave parcels on the mat.