The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

School proms...WTF???

 

My 16 year-old daughter has her school prom coming up in July, so I've been warned that we need to sort out (read: pay for):

 

Prom dress

Dress for "after party"

Professional hair & make-up

Transport (see separate post)

3 friends + families descending on our house for "seeing them off" drinks

 

'kin 'ell

 

Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned school disco???

[Angrydicky]

I got the bus to my 'prom', I got my suit from a charity shop, and I used some pound shop gel in my hair.

[RedSparrow]

Ugh. Proms are American horribleness.

 

Sad to see the chaos in Libya, and that Gadaffi is attacking his own people. I always used to quite like his style.

 

I wonder what the criteria for joining his bodyguard unit was?

[Guest]

Our school didn't even have a disco, let alone a prom. Unless I wasn't invited, which I'm fine with.

[Cavcraft]

My son had the chance to go to his school prom (+1 for American horribleness) but couldn't be arsed because most of his mates weren't bothering and he wasn't going to hang round with all the teachers pets and snivellers.

 

School discos (in my day) were a laugh because you could play fingers and tops in a dark corner of the hall with the school bike who'd drunk a thimble full of piss weak cider. If they didn't play ball (arf arf) you'd just breeze into school the next day and tell a pack of lies about them.

[Angrydicky]

They're a waste of time. It really wasn't worth the fiver to get in, not really sure why I went to be honest. It was full of twats and the music was shite from what I remember.

 

On the plus side, someone turned up in a very original turd brown Mini 1000, which I remember perving over.

[Negative Creep]

I was too alternative to go to our school prom, so we all went to the park and got stoned instead. Plus I had no one to take to it.

[RedSparrow]

We were the first year ever at our school to have a 'prom'. I must say I had a miserable evening. Girl I was mad about getting off with a gorilla from the football team and an ex crying and telling people I was a bastard.

 

Good times!

[Guest]

My secondary school had a prom. Couldn't be arsed with that. I couldn't stand 98% of the people going, so the majority who did go were probably perfectly suited.

 

Sixth form college also had a prom, which was arranged by the cool kids from wealthy backgrounds. If I remember rightly the tickets were £62 each and the event itself took place in Staffordshire. When you consider that the sixth form was in Northwich and none of us could drive, it possibly wasn't the most inspired piece of organisation in the world. Then again, perhaps it was some kind of social exclusion policy - the toffs got their evening out, and the rest of us went down the Penny Black and got shitfaced.

[cobblers]

We had our prom at a local hotel/function room thing. My mum took me to burtons and bought me a suit and not being interested in limos or any of that shit, I got dropped off by my cousin in a white fiesta turbo. with a dump valve. I was the coolest.

 

Through some sort of hilarious miscommunication, the hotel had the bar open and were serving beer for about 15 minutes until the head of year realised and put a stop to it. Spirits slightly deflated I decided to make myself some money and walked 200 yards up the road to the petrol station and bought as many cans of beer as I could afford with my £20 or so (I get asked for ID now at 25, I have no idea why they served me at 16) and then trotted back down and sold them to all the lads from school who were too chicken to try and buy it themselves for something like £10 for 4 cans (Which was enough to get you pissed at 16). I got busted by the head of year, but not until I had sold most of it (and drank plenty, too) but managed to sneak back in and I think I ended up with some girl who was regarded as a bit ropey at the time, but according to facebook she is now SPLIT MINT.

 

Got home took the suit off and never touched it again for 7 years until NYE 2008 when the (terrible) local pub had some sort of "suited and booted" shit on new years eve and there was a fat man on the door checking you were dressed suitably and taking £8 off you to cover some shit quiche and some sausage rolls. I walked back home put my 8 year old suit on (which somehow still fitted well enough to not look hilarious) and ended up finding £50 in the inside pocket. I have no idea how I ended up leaving it in there, £50 is a lot of money now but when I was 16 it was an absolute fortune

[eddyramrod]

  Hirst said:

Our school didn't even have a disco, let alone a prom. Unless I wasn't invited, which I'm fine with.

 

Ditto, I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

[cms206]

Grin: Volvo 740 HBOL arrived today for sum total of one pee.

Grump: Still can't get the fucker to run. Off out with shiny new RAC card to get a nice man with a big orange truck to take it from it's current place of rest on the main road to somewhere I can actually work on it...

[eddyramrod]

Aren't they lovely? I've posted this before, these are my guard-puppies, Cagney and Lacey, currently being looked after by my friend, at whose garage they were left.

 

Or at least they were. Some scumbag has enticed them away during closed-time. They can get under the gate, so Andreas had carefully placed barriers to stop them. Fine, until a barely-human moves the barrier. The dogs stick together, being brother and sister, so take one, you take both. Apparently selling puppies to pet shops for beer money is quite a popular game with Cypriot children. What these children (assuming that's who it was) didn't know is that Andreas's cousin is a senior police officer, and the dogs are registered with a local vet. Also they are owned by someone who has watched far too many Dirty Harry movies.

 

Good luck selling my pups, kids. You gonna get a visit...

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

CYPRUS HAS GONE TO THE DOGS!

 

Flashing at a red traffic light doesn't make it change, especially a temporary one set on a timer. Mongs.

[trigger]

Ah shit Eddy, sorry to hear about that, Mrs T would die if her dog went missing, I'm always second best since he turned up.

 

I hope they turn up quickly unharmed.

[eddyramrod]

Thanks chaps.

[eddyramrod]

Bloody Windows Live Hotmail. "We can't connect to WLH at the moment, please try again later." FFS, I've been trying again later for the last half hour. There's at least one message in my inbox, but can I get at the fucker? This is supposed to be "service?"

[cobblers]

  eddyramrod said:

Bloody Windows Live Hotmail. "We can't connect to WLH at the moment, please try again later." FFS, I've been trying again later for the last half hour. There's at least one message in my inbox, but can I get at the fucker? This is supposed to be "service?"

 

You get what you pay for!

 

But SRSLY, I've had the same hotmail address and checked it daily since 1998 and can't remember it being down, ever. Mine is currently working great?

[eddyramrod]

I can get it on Explorer, but not Firefox. Hmmm...

[greengartside]

Not so much a grump, but annoyed at my lack of memory. I can't remember where that abandoned XR2 is that was mentioned on here a while back. It's in North Wales somewhere, sat up at a garage and has been there for years. I may be going in that area on Saturday so would like to take some recent pics for you shiters...

[Lankytim]

A black Mk1 XR2? I saw it recently, but I can't remember where it is either!

 

IIRC its by that big abandoned ship between Rhyl and Flint.

[greengartside]

That's the one LT!

 

I'm off to Bagillt so it's not far from there

[Lankytim]

The wife saw it too, She may remember exactly where it is. Its very rusty though, I'm sure there was another rotten wreck aswell but can't recall what.

 

Its deffo on the coast road though, looking at google maps if you drive between Rhyl and Flint you will deffo see it eventually.

[retrogeezer]

Yeh, it's on that coast road near that ship....saw it a year or so ago and spoke to the owner. Of course he said he was going to restore it!

[trigger]

Just lost a steering wheel stoplock on ebay by 50p

[Guest]

  retrogeezer said:

Yeh, it's on that coast road near that ship....saw it a year or so ago and spoke to the owner. Of course he said he was going to restore it!

 

I saw an XR 2 in Staffordshire once.

 

I feel unpopular, like that time there was a sixth form prom.

 

FLANGE.

[myglaren]

  trigger said:

Just lost a steering wheel stoplock on ebay by 50p

 

Just lost this by 2 seconds as they logged me out just as I put my bid in

[greengartside]

  Lankytim said:

The wife saw it too, She may remember exactly where it is. Its very rusty though, I'm sure there was another rotten wreck aswell but can't recall what.

 

Its deffo on the coast road though, looking at google maps if you drive between Rhyl and Flint you will deffo see it eventually.

 

I still can't find it! grrrrr! Anyone have a postcode for it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Its near this

 

[CreepingJesus]

The stupidity of sending trucks out without even basic tools in them, when you know they're fucking heaps, and destined to break down in some minor way.

Tail lift won't tuck away...jammed hanging off the back of the trailer. I know it's the stupid little fucking shuttle valve that's jammed, again. Have I got an adjustable, to undo the cap on the end of the casing, so I can whip it out, give it a clean and reassemble? No. Have I got a decent sized hammer to whack the casing, and shift the little fucker? No.

So it cost the company a late Saturday evening call-out, and me my planned leisurely dinner stop. Oh cock.