The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  RedSparrow said:

I could do with a camera like that - how did you get one - it says out of stock for all of them?

 

There was an 'add to basket' button there before. Check again in a few days - looks like they only keep the odd one in stock.

[Polystratus]

  M said:

What the fuck are Ordnance Survey playing at? "Getamap" used to pop up a wee window and you got about 16 squares of map - now I have to update my operating system and install a fucking Microsoft plug-in to view a fucking OS map? Fuck off!

 

Had a quick look using Firefox, still works ok and didn't ask for any plug in crap.

[MrDuke]

WARNING: Epic levels of sniveling self-pity approaching.

 

Apparently, once I've factored in the commuting costs, and the extra alcohol I'd no longer 'need' to consume during the week, I'd only be around £20/week worse off if I were jobless and living off the state. Now, I've always prided myself on never having claimed a penny of benefit in my life (no disrespect to anyone who's had to) and I've always detested those who did it through choice, including members of my extended family. However, I now find myself seriously considering it.

Normally 'self-respect' would prevent me, but today it dawned on me that being 32 and earning roughly the same as a toilet-cleaner after 7 years of mindless office-based toil, while taking an un-ending stream of negativity and politely-worded abuse from patronising, less intelligent shits who have never done my job but know exactly how I should be doing it better, and working under managers who just smile and pat me on the back when I tell them I physically cannot handle the workload I've been left with, while trying to convince irritable publics that we're in the right when I know full well that we're shafting them royally and couldn't actually give a toss about their health because our targets are more important, and generally feeling more and more like a balding overweight loser every fucking day.......... self-respect suddenly doesn't really figure.

I don't have kids who I need to set an example to, I'm genuinely past caring what friends & family think of my choices, and I'm mildly concerned about my liver. Finding another job is not an option in this part of the world. Asking for a transfer would result in an even worse position (see previous mention of toilet-cleaners. I wasn't exaggerating) I'm over-qualified for the kind of solitary, stress-free jobs I'm realistically looking at, and under-qualified for the kind of jobs that I've done before and am good at/derive some small pleasure from. Starting my own business would be great, if everyone wasn't so skint - everyone I know who's self-employed is having a major nightmare at the moment. I'm too old to start becoming a fully-qualified electrician/plumber/plasterer/etc etc.

So someone convince me to keep going through the motions, otherwise the world of dole-scrounging beckons seductively. Oh, and I've tried telling myself to Man The Fuck Up and Stop Bloody Moaning, and it didn't work.

 

 

Sorry for the Wat-style levels of discontent

 

Have a picture by way of apology:

 

[retrogeezer]

  RedSparrow said:

I could do with a camera like that - how did you get one - it says out of stock for all of them?

 

 

I've got an S5800 bridge camera to sell....£60 quid posted to anyone here. It's in mint condition, always had a protective cover on the screen and takes fantastic photos. Boxed with everything that came with it... I've just upgraded to a bigger zoom one thats all.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fujifilm-FinePi ... B000V9P5NC

[Gompo]

  MrDuke said:

 

Apparently, once I've factored in the commuting costs, and the extra alcohol I'd no longer 'need' to consume during the week, I'd only be around £20/week worse off if I were jobless and living off the state.

So someone convince me to keep going through the motions, otherwise the world of dole-scrounging beckons seductively. Oh, and I've tried telling myself to Man The Fuck Up and Stop Bloody Moaning, and it didn't work.

 

 

..Obviously cant convince you as such, but when I was a child my mother would have been better off giving up up her job, and she had very few outgoings (didnt drink/smoke/commute or have any social type costs) but chose to maintain self respect and hopefully have a better chance of improving her job in the future.

 

..She never really improved her job, but I'm sure she has no regrets in staying in work during that time.

[AnthonyG]

  Alexg said:

Spent the day stripping down the MG Metro, I was quite excited on getting started on the restoration as I have a clear idea of the finished article. Unfortunatly I fear the terminal rot uncovered will mean the finished article will be frag fodder....

 

Can you not get an old dears 1.0 litre beige HL and swap everything over?

 

(I realise sound 1980-1984 Metros are not as common as they were were 5 years ago, but got to worth a try if the MG bits on yours are still good)

[Negative Creep]

If you do give up your job you will get even more fed up as you will have loads of free time and nothing to do in it. Plus having to visit the job centre and sit amongst the Jeremy Kyle rejects will be enough to convince you being unemployed ain't fun

[Station]

Was sold a car a few months ago that I later (a couple of days) found out had the wrong log book and plates, blah blah etc.

The bloke who sold it to me is messing me around now, so is there anyway I can take action against him for selling a blatantly cloned vehicle? The car was pennies and isn't worth anything to me (I won't lose out). I haven't done anything wrong so far so it won't come back to me. His name is on the logbook.

[MrDuke]

  Gompo said:

..Obviously cant convince you as such, but when I was a child my mother would have been better off giving up up her job, and she had very few outgoings (didnt drink/smoke/commute or have any social type costs) but chose to maintain self respect and hopefully have a better chance of improving her job in the future.

 

..She never really improved her job, but I'm sure she has no regrets in staying in work during that time.

 

Fair point, and I don't regret the 7 years I've spent in the same awful place as opposed to sponging, but self-respect means less and less as time passes, partly because of the job itself! I too don't smoke or 'go out', and probably wouldn't drink anywhere near as much if I didn't have to face a dead-end career prospect.

 

  NC said:

If you do give up your job you will get even more fed up as you will have loads of free time and nothing to do in it. Plus having to visit the job centre and sit amongst the Jeremy Kyle rejects will be enough to convince you being unemployed ain't fun

 

That's the thing, I would actually be able to fill most of my waking hours, albeit not very constructively. I reckon after 4 months or so, I'd have finished remodelling the garden and tweaking the inside of the house, then I could devote my time to restoring old bikes, practising guitar, photographing random shit, and getting artistic. Good point on the job centre waiting-room though...

 

 

 

On reflection, I'm probably just hitting the time of life when you realise that barring a minor miracle, you're stuck in whatever rut you happen to be in, indefinitely. Eventually I'll just move on to growing weed or playing online rpgs all night. Either that or getting into football.

[Mr Lobster]

  MrDuke said:

On reflection, I'm probably just hitting the time of life when you realise that barring a minor miracle, you're stuck in whatever rut you happen to be in, indefinitely.

 

Nah, doesn't have to be like that at all. You're never too old to start again or something.

[Alexg]

  AnthonyG said:

  Alexg said:

Spent the day stripping down the MG Metro, I was quite excited on getting started on the restoration as I have a clear idea of the finished article. Unfortunatly I fear the terminal rot uncovered will mean the finished article will be frag fodder....

 

Can you not get an old dears 1.0 litre beige HL and swap everything over?

 

(I realise sound 1980-1984 Metros are not as common as they were were 5 years ago, but got to worth a try if the MG bits on yours are still good)

 

They are not at all common! I think i'll get an estimate and take it from there. Here are two shots of part of the problem area....

 

[eddyramrod]

  MrDuke said:

taking an un-ending stream of negativity and abuse from patronising, less intelligent shits who have never done my job but know exactly how I should be doing it better,

 

I was a truck driver; believe me, that's normal! And I've cleaned toilets too. It beats sitting around spending your dwindling savings (assuming you had any anyway) on your garden/car/whatever. Trust me, you will spend! I've been in Cyprus two years now, living off the proceeds of our house (which we sold at a discount because a cash-buyer came along) and the spending never seems to stop, even though we live in a rented house and recycle stuff where possible*. I'm at a point where I really need a job, but there isn't anything. And if there is, Cypriots employ Cypriots first. Can't blame them for that, it's what UK should have been doing all along.

 

*Recycling: I've spent a couple of afternoons now using up timber from scrap pallets and freezer-crates to make display shelving for some of my models, and a fence and gate for part of the garden. Where possible I won't buy stuff, I'll take away scrap and make use of it. Perhaps I should change my name to Womble!

[Cavcraft]

Women.

[Guest]

  Cavette said:

Women.

 

I have to say I detest Vauxhalls being driven by porn stars. Really gets on my cock.

[Cavcraft]

If that was my only problem I'd be happy.

[eddyramrod]

  watanabe said:

  Cavette said:

Women.

 

I have to say I detest Vauxhalls being driven by porn stars. Really gets on my cock.

 

You should be so lucky...

[Guest]

  eddyramrod said:

  watanabe said:

  Cavette said:

Women.

 

I have to say I detest Vauxhalls being driven by porn stars. Really gets on my cock.

 

You should be so lucky...

 

Who says I'm not?

 

Actually, I'm lying.

 

Bollocks.

[RedSparrow]

In just over a week I am making my first attempt at emigrating. I should be happy but am having major stresses about it. And despite numerous trips to the tip and charity shop I still appear to have a flat full of rubbish. Why didn't I sort this out sooner?

Also, I have enough money to survive for about 2 months and am worrying about the job situation, although Finland have an extremely generous welfare system because people are honest there, and in fact feel ashamed if they don't work. Crazy huh?

[Lord Sterling]

  Lord Sterling said:

820e power steering

 

One of the power bloody steering pipes decided it would be a fun idea to pop off and spew p/s fluid all over the road outside my house AGAIN! There is already stains on the road from the previous pipe problems it had.

 

Yep, once again the flexi pipe has wriggled it way off coating my road in p/s fluid, I'm sure someone is going to make a complaint soon. I'm getting fed up with this and fed up the car in general, it obviously doesnt want to do the job its built for. I'll get it reattached, take the car to the garage and makes sure I find some sort of permanent solution.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What does power steering fluid do to the road? Stain it?

 

An oil leak once left the street outside my house looking like the Rainbow Road level of Mario Kart, I was convinced someone would call the Environment Agency and have my poor car blue shelled.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

1) UPVC windows, doors and garage doors are ugly and shit.

 

2) Can anyone recommend a UPVC cleaner capable of removing oily fingerprints from shit window frames and garage doors? One that might work, if it is even possible to remove oil stains from plastic doors?

 

3) If you are considering replacing a metal garage door with a plastic one, do not do that. It will be ugly and shit.

[Richard]

We get about 27 people a day on the phone or at the door trying to sell us plastic fascia boards. Apparently your house looks shit unless it has some wavy, yellowing plastic nailed to it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Oh we have those. They look shit, and have dirty water trails under all the screws. We also had a respectable looking, easy to paint wooden panel above the front door replaced with a plastic version which is covered in same screws and (get this) looks shit. Most recent addition has been to cover the roof edging with chunky brown plastic, which is magnificently shit when compared to the neighbour's roof (they paid to have theirs repaired properly).

 

Doors have gone yellow in the middle, window frames have marks and can't be cleaned or painted and the garage door is offensively ugly. Especially since it's now ruined by dirty marks caused by me doing garagey things in the garage, and starting cars which are parked against it. Maybe I expect too much versatility from a garage door.

 

I need to stop complaining and earn enough money to buy my own house, one with rotting wooden windows, but I hate how people have sacrificed aesthetics just so they can avoid looking after their homes. There were some houses down the road had their bay windows double glazed, and the frames are so chunky you'd swear they'd been converted to prisons. That's not as bad as the 30s house which has had all its red tiles replaced with plastic strips - caravan chic.

[Negative Creep]

"To me a train is a train, so I don't see why I should be charged an additional fare when I got on another [completely different company's] train"

 

Jesus wept.

[Negative Creep]

But since I don't have to speak to anyone directly there is a certain pleasure to be had replying with "it's your responsibility to check before boarding, we are not liable"

[Alexg]

  RedSparrow said:

In just over a week I am making my first attempt at emigrating. I should be happy but am having major stresses about it. And despite numerous trips to the tip and charity shop I still appear to have a flat full of rubbish. Why didn't I sort this out sooner?

Also, I have enough money to survive for about 2 months and am worrying about the job situation, although Finland have an extremely generous welfare system because people are honest there, and in fact feel ashamed if they don't work. Crazy huh?

 

Best of luck with it mate, I hope it works out for you!

 

BTW - What are you doing with your TR7s?

[Guest]

Farmer's whinging about the expanding foam SCTSH_ANDY squirted in the wall cavities. And that by taking some bits off the white 480 I'm turning his farm 'into a scrapyard'. Oh, do piss off. How much money are you making from us a month?

 

He's not had a go at that cock next door for filling every single free space (and a cowshed) with his shit unsaleable cars though. Dual standards, hmm? Chinny reckon?

[CreepingJesus]

  Peter said:

Can anyone recommend a UPVC cleaner capable of removing oily fingerprints from shit window frames and garage doors? One that might work, if it is even possible to remove oil stains from plastic doors?

 

B+Q's own brand 'uPVC Cleaner' is pretty good. It took Gaffa tape marks off one of our window frames, after the window had been taped shut, pending repair for ages. Buy a couple of bottles, 'cos strangely, the stuff doesn't go very far.

But uPVC fittings are shit. Council replaced our sturdy wooden doors (in keeping with the look of the building), with cheapo plastic crap a few years back. In the name of energy efficiency. Which would be fine if the doors had been fitted right; i.e., without gaps you could pass your finger thro'. Expanding foam and cheap pine facia to the rescue.

[trigger]

A question sent to me today from ebay about my Bora which is on there for £2500.

 

  Quote

Full Name: denim zini

Country: United Kingdom

Primary Telephone: 0208 *******

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hi there hope you are okay,I hope you understand that I do offer you £1900 and could come to pick it up tonight,if you agree to the price,Because I need to have a car withing 2 days as I was involved in accident and my car is total loss. please let me know as son as possible.regards Denim

 

Fuck off.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  CreepingJesus said:

  Peter said:

Can anyone recommend a UPVC cleaner capable of removing oily fingerprints from shit window frames and garage doors? One that might work, if it is even possible to remove oil stains from plastic doors?

 

B+Q's own brand 'uPVC Cleaner' is pretty good. It took Gaffa tape marks off one of our window frames, after the window had been taped shut, pending repair for ages. Buy a couple of bottles, 'cos strangely, the stuff doesn't go very far.

But uPVC fittings are shit. Council replaced our sturdy wooden doors (in keeping with the look of the building), with cheapo plastic crap a few years back. In the name of energy efficiency. Which would be fine if the doors had been fitted right; i.e., without gaps you could pass your finger thro'. Expanding foam and cheap pine facia to the rescue.

 

Cheers, I'll pick some up. Your door replacement is typical of small picture green policies... replace something perfectly functional made of natural, recyclable, biodegradable wood with a plastic product made from chemicals to save a minuscule amount on your heating bills, perhaps. Sigh.