The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

I want to make a complaint to Tesco, I have just tried Customer Service and couldn't get through on the phone, they do not offer an email address so I shall have to write an old fashioned letter, presumably this is so that I will hopefully give up and forget it. (I suppose I could borrow a Rolls-Royce and drive it through their winow, but I don't fancy the jail sentence.)This evening I purchased my weekly groceries, (three bottles of gin, several bottles of tonic, a loaf of bread, piece of cheese and the dog-food) as a special treat I bought a box of their Continental Selection chocolates. (£1.49)Nowhere on the box is there a warning that eating them one after another all in one go will make you feel sick. Nor does it warn you about wet feet. (Bob the dog was watching me eat them and I didn't realise, until it was too late, that he was salivating and dribbling on my socks)I shall not be happy untill all the remaining stock is removed from the shelves and marked with a warning not to be a greedy pig, failing that they can send me a dry pair of socks.

http://www.injurylawyers4u.co.uk/index2.html they will bring 'em to justice. Going by their adverts, they are the moral crusaders of our time, enriching our lives and fighting for you (or rather 4 u, if I was seeking a lawyer I'd certainly want one who uses text speak)

[Mr Lobster]

we've pretty much made invisibility shields.

We have? RLY? GR8, I'm offf to sit in the ladies changing room at the gym then

[Pillock]

we've pretty much made invisibility shields.

We have? RLY? GR8, I'm offf to sit in the ladies changing room at the gym then

On a microwave-level, yes.However it's said that even if they perfected it to firstly cover visible light, and then cover a range of visible light (so you didn't have to dulux yourself all one colour), you wouldn't be able to see from inside the cloak to the outside.Stick with the little cameras mounted in the PIR sensors.

[RedSparrow]

Hmmpphh.I managed 4 and a half days of not smoking.Had a couple of beers thursday night and had to go to the shop for some baccy.Didn't smoke friday but have just had one now. I justified it cos I plan to go out on the piss later, my plan being to only smoke when on the sauce.I am grumpy with myself for being weak-willed.I am going to try to make myself give away remaining baccy after tonights festivies. But the shop now sells Amber leaf in 10g 'trial packs' (amazing they are called that when they are trying to discourage smoking) for a mere £2.20.Sorry for boring-ness, I felt the need to share the misery.

[pogweasel]

4.5 days, poor effort. I usually manage about a fortnight before caving in!

[Father Ted]

Meh! People really need to work out whether they are smokers or non smokers and just live with it.Yeah, smoking shortens your life, but then so does bacon, chips, anal sex, Vaginal sex, oral sex, being run over by buses, alcohol, drugs, television, mobile phones and so on.Fuck it, just enjoy yourself.

[Rusty Pelican]

Started again after a year of no smoking , felt like a smoker who didnt though , reason was being made redundant 3 times in less than two years So here gos my grump , boring job , hated every nanno second left to work at a VERY busy printers , trouble was they were running from 7 rented units they move 9 miles awy to a place sooooo big you could store a few lancaster bombers in it tried to run as normal whilst moving 10 colour presses about loose all the customers combined with moving costsadministration called claim of the DTITaken over by someone else who asset stripped it and had previously gone bust owing 47 millionclaim of the DTIGet a job at LSUK Went bust 4 months intaken over by UCP logistics who promply folded ( asset stripped and competition removal all in one )claim of the Fucking DTI Tis no wonder i smoke.

[pompei]

Alan Carr. Really, what is the point?

[AXrescuer]

Started again after a year of no smoking , felt like a smoker who didnt though , reason was being made redundant 3 times in less than two years So here gos my grump , boring job , hated every nanno second left to work at a VERY busy printers , trouble was they were running from 7 rented units they move 9 miles awy to a place sooooo big you could store a few lancaster bombers in it tried to run as normal whilst moving 10 colour presses about loose all the customers combined with moving costsadministration called claim of the DTITaken over by someone else who asset stripped it and had previously gone bust owing 47 millionclaim of the DTIGet a job at LSUK Went bust 4 months intaken over by UCP logistics who promply folded ( asset stripped and competition removal all in one )claim of the Fucking DTI Tis no wonder i smoke.

FFS! Make sure you let us know if you are coming for a job interview where any of us work!Really, I thought my luck was bad.

[Rusty Pelican]

Alan Carr. Really, what is the point?

Only Alan Carr knows that , well maybe

[M'coli]

Hmmpphh.I managed 4 and a half days of not smoking.Had a couple of beers thursday night and had to go to the shop for some baccy.Didn't smoke friday but have just had one now. I justified it cos I plan to go out on the piss later, my plan being to only smoke when on the sauce.I am grumpy with myself for being weak-willed.I am going to try to make myself give away remaining baccy after tonights festivies. But the shop now sells Amber leaf in 10g 'trial packs' (amazing they are called that when they are trying to discourage smoking) for a mere £2.20.Sorry for boring-ness, I felt the need to share the misery.

You'll know when your ready to stop properly. I'd stopped for about a month using the gum and the inhalator but then started smoking when drinking alcohol again, but only then - this is always the worst part - it's the combined release of brain chemical pleasure transmitters that makes it sooo hard - the "chemical memory"; and after a holiday at about 8 months it went back to all the time. Tried again using the gum and the inhalator, but work stress put me back on it. Finally stopped one day while still in possession of tobacco(I smoked roll-ups), just because it was The Right Time.When using gum as a replacement nicotine fix, I didn't chew it all the time - just when I needed to have a nic fix, the same with the inhalator but that was reserved purely for when alcohol was involved.7 and a half years down the line, I'm ok with it, and so glad now the ban's come in that I don't - but having asthma, I never should have started anyway. Hope this helps.

[RedSparrow]

Seems that for a lot of us smoking is work related.I became a full time smoker when I started a quite stressfull job when I was 18. I'm trying to work out if there is some way of sueing someone over it...

[FredTransit]

if it's work/stress related, I should be on 60 a day! FFS, don't start.....

[Mr Lobster]

Seems that for a lot of us smoking is work related.

I don't smoke but there ain't many days when I don't have a beer (or several) after work...

[Negative Creep]

Parking. Being near the city centre, everything within about a 1 mile radius is permit controlled. No problem, I've just moved house and have my tenancy agreement so I'll get a permit. However, I go down to collect one only to find I can't get one at this address. When I asked exactly where I should park my car, i was told to use the pay and display car park up the road (which operates until 10 in the evening and costs £8 a day.)Now there is no way in hell I'm paying to park outside my own house so the only solution is to keep moving the car between the various zones (which of course is depriving another resident of their space). Except of course everyone else who can't get a permit has the same idea, so there are no spaces. I've just spent 20 minutes driving around in circles waiting for a space to appear, and when I finish work in the small hours this morning I'll have to start it all over again.Just to add to my good mood, the pay and display bays in the surrounding roads (which you can't park on even if you have a permit) are always at least half empty. Time for a shitty letter to the council I think

[pogweasel]

Time to buy a bike. Or move to the 'burbs.

[Negative Creep]

Can't really do deliveries on a bike............

[brammy777]

good god, remember i said about that ebayer opening an unpaid item strike against me?Well, i sent him a message apologising saying i cant pay, and i will pay his fees for him.No, he just landed me with a strike right after reading said message.Did he reply? No, course not.

[Cavcraft]

good god, remember i said about that ebayer opening an unpaid item strike against me?Well, i sent him a message apologising saying i cant pay, and i will pay his fees for him.No, he just landed me with a strike right after reading said message.Did he reply? No, course not.

I take it he can ram his fee refund up his council now then? Right, one from the history books that really used to piss me off:I was a commercial tyre fitter many moons back and we used to get really busy. You'd be out most of the time and usually as soon as you rolled back into the depot they'd pass you a tyre and a job sheet and you'd be straight back out again.What a treat it was to be verbally abused by some ignorant twat driver as you pulled onto the hard shoulder to mend his puncture. 'where the f*ck have you been, I've been here for two hours' 'your service is shit' etc and then another Christ knows how long rant from them.I mean obviously I've been asleep all bastard afternoon and just ignored the job of mending their tyres the wankers I did wonder if they ever checked thier trucks or trailers at a later date and spot the marks where I'd clobbered the chassis instead of the wheels so I could take as long as humanly possible to get them on their way again

[Pete-M]

Alan Carr. Really, what is the point?

+1. If he's on telly, I'll watch something else.

[Guest]

Update to a while back - only 7 days until "forced fun week" at work.Must be mentally preparing for it as I've got a near-constant headache, can see my veins bulging out of my wrists and have a feeling of dread which won't go away.

[seth]

This may or may not be to up my standing in the grumpy chart, pop pickers.Peanut Butter. We buy big 1 kg tubs of the stuff and I like it chunky. Why oh why oh why have they not developed some method of stopping it become separated into an oily mess at the top and solid unspreadable mass at the bottom. I'd pay good money for some sort of automatic mixing device that stirs it once a day or something so that it stays in its correct joined consistency.

[Guest]

Kill two birds with one stone - get Mrs Seth a whisk for Christmas.

[pogweasel]

This may or may not be to up my standing in the grumpy chart, pop pickers.Peanut Butter. We buy big 1 kg tubs of the stuff and I like it chunky. Why oh why oh why have they not developed some method of stopping it become separated into an oily mess at the top and solid unspreadable mass at the bottom. I'd pay good money for some sort of automatic mixing device that stirs it once a day or something so that it stays in its correct joined consistency.

I was just thinking to myself this morning 'why doesn't peanut butter not separate any more?', because I liked it better when it did. I will therefore swap you the remaining contents of my jar (Asda own brand) for yours, then everyone will be happy.

[Rusty Pelican]

^^^^^^^^^^^Sir tainly , youve cheared me up with this , oh how true

[pompei]

Mrs P has only today ordered a new wardrobe to fit in a bigger space to deposit her vast collection of garments in. Much better to chuck a load out as you did ...

[sporty-shite]

The Severn Bridge.Drive too far on a shitty job to get to it, thinking "it's OK, I've got my switch and a bit of cash"Approach and see "cash only" sign. Think, "I've got a tenner, that'll cover it"Approach next sign, and see it's £10.90. Yep. TEN POUNDS AND NINETY FUCKING PENCE to go IN to Wales.So have to leave motorway at next exit about 5 miles away, find cash machine, draw cash, go back to bridge, just to be reamed to go IN to Wales. They should be paying me. And they know they're being robbing twats because of the amount of "do not abuse our staff" type of signs there are all over the place. Not that I would condone abusing them, it must be bad enough sitting in a box all day as it is.That is all. For now.

[Mr Lobster]

£10.90. Yep. TEN POUNDS AND NINETY FUCKING PENCE to go IN to Wales.

I'm assuming you were driving something large and truck shaped? Surely it's not that much for a car? If it is, then I think I'd be on the shore, building a raft.

[sporty-shite]

£10.90. Yep. TEN POUNDS AND NINETY FUCKING PENCE to go IN to Wales.

I'm assuming you were driving something large and truck shaped? Surely it's not that much for a car? If it is, then I think I'd be on the shore, building a raft.

That was for a 3.5tonne van, it's even more for anything over 7.5t. At least I'll get the money back, seeing as it was work. If I was in my own time, I'd have turned back!

[whitevanman]

If I remember correctly it wasn't the Welsh that wanted that bridge..............