The grumpy thread

[Guest]

Manchester's alright, it has the same draws and drawbacks of most big cities. The city centre in particular is pleasant enough.

[Des]

My VW passed mot without any real drama, it seems yellow headlamps must be accompanied by yellow sidelights. So I reward it with some attention, took a screwdriver to its many scabby flakey dodgy looking areas in the arches and underneath but nowhere would the manic stabbing produce a hole, amazing, so onto an oilchange treat, sump plug just turns and wont undo, starts dripping, no amount of pulling, prying, twatting will give it purchase to wind out. Had to drill, tap and knock up this contraption

to draw on it while I unwound, with oil running down my arms the whole time, thread looks a bit mullered considering it was in aluminium.

Although I shouldn't be moaning, worn out sump plug could be considered a good thing.

[Guest]

Some google fu tells me there is some proper bo selecta real ale gaff in salfird, perhaps I will go there tomoz and get hinked.

 

That'll be the New Oxford then. Shall we go there?

 

And yes, the Britannia is crap. It was a due a refit about 10 years ago which never happened. I stayed there about six months ago when some friends had their wedding reception there.

 

As for Manchester, erm.....

 

It's alright. I can say that because I'm not a real Manc.

[Roc24v]

To all those feeling grumpy with the world today, I present you with this, to ease your troubles:

 

[retrogeezer]

go to the Aviation Viewing Park by the airport where old buffs give little tours of a Concorde and other assorted airshite.

 

it was alright when it was £2 to get in...now they have changed it to these rip-off fees:

 

- £3 for up to 1 hours stay

  - £6 for up to 2 hours stay

  - £9 for up to 3 hours stay

  - £12 for over 3 hours stay

 

[ChinaTom]

There are these little laptop speakers apparently designed in Switzerland and are alledgendly the smallest external speakers on the market. Lifetrons is the company. They were advertised in an inflight mag I read recently too. They looked just the job for me. As my laptop internal speakers are buggered, I thought I'd treat myself - they have a Swiss price-tag too.

 

I bought two. All excited.

 

The single mono central dash mounted speaker in my old Base-spec Escort sounded better.

 

What a monumental waste of money. Three figures!!! THREE FIGURES!!!!!

[messerschmitt owner]

There are these little laptop speakers apparently designed in Switzerland and are alledgendly the smallest external speakers on the market. Lifetrons is the company. They were advertised in an inflight mag I read recently too. They looked just the job for me. As my laptop internal speakers are buggered, I thought I'd treat myself - they have a Swiss price-tag too.

 

I bought two. All excited.

 

The single mono central dash mounted speaker in my old Base-spec Escort sounded better.

 

What a monumental waste of money. Three figures!!! THREE FIGURES!!!!!

that's where you made your mistake - you wanted a Bose spec Escort

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Idiot mortgage owners (also known as "private landlords") who think that owning a loan somehow makes them superior to other people and/or the law. Being unable to use an estate agent (I only want a 3-month lease and their terms are a little less flexible than the Great Wall) is even worse than having to use their services!!

 

First example: Second-generation P******ni landlord. Tidy house, reasonable location, decent price and a drive for shite-fixing. So I say "alright, I'll have it- e-mail me the contract to have a read and let's meet tomorrow to give you the deposit". So he sends me a contract that is full of SHIT! There must've been about 50 grammar/spelling errors in the 3 pages of it, and it contained ridiculous terms like "the tennent [sic] must not make any duplicate keys" (didn't even give you the option of asking the landlord's permission for it!) and "any vehicles parked on the driveway must have Mot, road tax, and valid insurance" (are you going to evict me if I run out of screenwash?).

Told him there's about 10 things in there that need changing, he asks "Can you reword it and send it back to me?", I spend two and a half hours making it into a half-decent, mostly-legal document and he replies not agreeing or disagreeing with any of my changes, but with a totally different contract that he'd nicked off a letting agency and that also had quite a few terms that were not appropriate/applicable under the circumstances. Unsurprisingly, I told him what to do with his stupid contracts!

 

Second example: Somebody who works in an actual estate agency but has a couple of places that she rents out privately. The tenant wants to move in with her boyfriend (lucky sod- she is a very nice person and quite fit, too), so the landlady told her that she can look for a replacement tenant. So I go there, I say "ok, that looks decent, and I only want to rent for 3 months, so I'll just take over your tenancy.". The landlady says (in a very abrupt manner) "you can't do that, we can only do a 6 or 12 month tenancy".

-Why is that?

-It's just the way we do it.

-But we don't even need a new tenancy- I can just take over the existing one from your current tenant.

-No, I already told you we don't do that.

 

You stupid bint, it's not up to you. You HAVE to do it, because that's contract law's reason for being. If your current tenant wants to leave early and has found a way to do it without causing you any loss and you aren't consenting to it, then you're just left with an empty house and you can't ask her for any money.

 

I've found a place that looks pretty agreeable, but it's both 200 quid extra a month and pretty much unfurnished (more hassle and expense then).

 

I think I may need to speak to the hotel manager and ask him for a very-long-stay discount....

[Negative Creep]

After splitting up with the girl I was seeing I am now getting the full force of what Pistonheads refers to as THE MENTAL. Today has involved about 30 messages, ranging from "I hate you, I will never trust another man" to "please give us another chance" often in the space of 2 texts. She also sent a facebook message to my sister (who she never met or spoke to) trying to get her to message me and change my mind. Although I feel bad for dumping her (just didn't feel the same way) I've just given up replying.

 

We were together for about 10 days

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

If I were you, I would be superhappy to have dumped her. Imagine what she could do if you'd been foolish enough to stay with her.

[155V6]

Just make sure that if you have a pet rabbit,you don't let her anywhere near it

[Negative Creep]

If I were you, I would be superhappy to have dumped her. Imagine what she could do if you'd been foolish enough to stay with her.

 

 

i agree, Christ knows what it would be like if it were a few months in. Now completely removed from Facebook and added to my blocked caller list, which will hopefully stop texts as well

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

I'm so glad I don't have to put up with that shit.

 

There could be a joke in that comment somewhere but i won't say it.

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

[Polystratus]

We were together for about 10 days

 

You didn't meet her from an online dating site did you? Not saying online dating is a bad thing, just that you hear a lot stories about ladies on dating sites.

[dollywobbler]

There's nowt wrong with internet dating - it's only like any other way of meeting. Just try and actually meet before handing over your email address, phone numbers, bank details etc.

[Richard]

handing over your email address, phone numbers, bank details etc.

 

Never do this, not even if you get married.

[Polystratus]

There's nowt wrong with internet dating - it's only like any other way of meeting. Just try and actually meet before handing over your email address, phone numbers, bank details etc.

 

Tried it once, met for four weeks then she wanted some money to buy a secondhand car (Think it was a Rover 25 or something similar), told her that I wouldnt hand over any cash as we only recently met, afterwards got loads of excuses that she couldn't meet up again.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Doesn't that make her a prostitute?

[dollywobbler]

Tried it twice. Met a charming woman with no sense of smell (every man's dream? Fart as much as you like!) and then someone who became my wife...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

online dating can indeed work. In fact, it's much better than meeting a girl just after she's exhausted the city's supplies of Smirnoff Ice or whatever shit faux-drink is in vogue this week.

[Negative Creep]

Yes it was Plenty of Fish, home of chavs and single mothers. I would try match.com but they want £90 up front

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

OKCupid is free and alright, seems to attract less mentalists and slappers.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Yes it was Plenty of Fish, home of chavs and single mothers. I would try match.com but they want £90 up front

 

I've never actually tried using it (I just look at what's available from time to time), but freedating.co.uk seems pretty decent for a service that's totally gratis.

[cobblers]

Won an auction for some wheels to put on a van were selling - some 17" bland audi alloys. Not keen but they had 4 good tyres, were local and look OK on a t4.

 

I saw the sellers feedback included "I won the auction, but he wouldnt sell me the bike because he said it didnt go for enough"

 

Auction ended at £207 - Id bid £255 but £207 is is reasonable money for them.

 

Just after the auction finished I sent an email asking for collection details - no reply. Saw he;s relisted them with a £300 BIN, and is ignoring me.

 

The nob won't really be much better off by the time hes; fannied about with ebay fees, and I've sent him a message letting him know this.

 

I'm considering doing I do a BIN on another ebay account just to cost him the fees - he doesn't seem smart enough to report a non paying buyer. Infact I might just go round to collect them and refuse to pay more than £207 for them. nob.

[Guest]

I would try match.com but they want £90 up front

£90?! Might as well go kerb-crawling. Round here it'd be cheaper.

[mattblack]

some of you may remember that I sold my Dad's Mondeo for him when he gave up driving a few months ago. He got a DVLA acknowledgement letter dated 15 February 'confirming' that he was no longer the registered keeper.

 

He's just recived a notice of intended prosecution for a speeding offence on the 25 april.

 

Fucking lava bread munching twats.

[Guest]

Where 'the women' be concerned, I don't know what's worse. E-meeting or have your friends suddenly take an interest in your personal life when they want to set up some no hope munter that they've taken pity on. They seem to regard me as 'the nice one' and take offence when I push their potential matches away. The last thing I want to do is to give some poor bird ideas that won't be reciprocated. 'Oh' say my friends, 'but you're not seeing anyone - you should be'. How about fuck off guys, yeah? I'm quite capable of showing someone I'm interested in them - myself.

 

I've had six ruined nights out because of their attempts to force things. It happens once every couple of years. The last one at a mates' wedding was the worst. Can't think why I wouldn't be keen on a single parent type who's just come out of an abusive relationship. I'm hardly the most mature and together person as it is - no f'kin way am I messing up a little one's childhood.

 

Next, cue a massive argument. 'You miserable cunt, you'll never meet anyone at this rate, you're hardly beating them off with a stick' etc etc.

 

Don't recall asking your help in the first place, actually. I know they mean well, but by Christ it gets tedious.