The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

So, St fucking Modwen are knocking down the old flight shed at Longbridge, today I tried to blag a couple of signs before they knock the whole thing down but despite me asking about I cant find the bloody site manager despite some of the crew asking on my behalf. Also, whilst waiting parking the car up I managed to get a large screw pierced in my tyre.

 

I booked a test drive at MG in Longbridge in the new MG Magnette, they took my details promised me a test drive the next weekend and I've still hear nothing, 3 weeks later......

 

Eddy - It would be great if you could bring your Ford Granda complete with number-plate back here to blighty. With that plate you would look proper old money/eccentric

 

Incidently 'GF8' in the UK is apparently currently mounted up on a 1998 Mercedes Sprinter 310 LWB

[Lankytim]

Worth asking the guys to see if they will save anything tasty for you. A crate of beer or similar can instantly transform you into their best friend.

[eddyramrod]

Your Lordship: yes, I could bring it back, but I don't want to for a number of reasons. 1: it has the ridiculous DIY gearbox, which has no place in a luxury car. I thought I'd be able to live with it, but it just annoys me more and more. 2: it has significant history over here, where it's been from new (although only verbal so far, I haven't been able to get any confirmation). It really needs to be in a museum and owned by a Greek Cypriot. 3: Swansea would have kittens about the number plate. Yes it would look terrific, but I would eventually have to re-register and get something with rather more letters and numbers, ending in K. 4: I need to sell it to raise the money to come back!

[Lankytim]

To be fair, If I was a MK1 Granada i'd prefer to live in sunny Cyprus over the rainy U.K anyday.

[eddyramrod]

So would I, and I'm not a Granada! It has been here from new, so I don't think it's fair to subject it to UK winters after all this time. There are better, and better-spec, Granadas in Blighty if I really wanted to scratch that itch again. AFAIK there's a total of ONE other Granada still running over here, and that's a Mk2 and isn't as good in any way, except for having the proper gearbox. It'll be this one...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Random question: do you know if the Mk3 Granada was sold in Cyprus? If yes, was it offered as Granada or as Scorpio?

[maxpower]

finished work at 10pm last night been unable to get a wink of sleep .... it's now 5.49am and i am back in work at 8.00 this morning until 6pm.... fuckstix

 

 

***** update ****** called in a sicky

[Guest]

I promise I won't make this a habit. But, but, but......

 

You rely on other people, they let you down. I don't have to but I wanted to do a wee intro for a piece of coursework. My mixer decided to blow its arse out of one channel last week. Then my cans went. Lovely. Facilities would have lent me a field mixer, but I could tell they weren't keen on it.

 

Them: 'Well, you need to be specially trained on one of these.'

Me: 'I used to run a 48 track DC2000 with flying faders mate, a four track with some rotary knobs ain't gonna phase me (LOL at production in joke).'

Them: 'Well, you still need to be specially trained.'

 

Anyway, I find an alternative - an ex colleague who'd bought a mixer off me years ago still has it and will sell it me back. I can collect it off him first thing this morning. Decide to forego a lie in and have yet another early start, like I've had every day for the past three weeks, all week. Get in the car and yet another balls-up occurs: 'Oh yeah, sorry mate, I forgot to bring the mixer in, you can get it off me Monday'. Nice one. So if I want to record my intro and outro I have to do it on the day of hand in. Lovely.

 

Cans are away being repaired and won't come back until after Christmas. Was very tempting to nick a pair from a teaching room and slip them back in on Monday, but there's cameras everywhere and knowing me I'd get caught by jungle OUTTASPACE cleaner man as I headed for the exit (tip, he plays some bare ragga through the PA after 10PM when he thinks everyone's gone).

 

So, one unscheduled 100 mph run to the Trafford Centre later and I now have a pair of surprisingly good Sennheiser cans I'm definitely keeping around, even when my Grados come back.

 

Next up we have work. Work are being pricks because they 'don't know' if I can have next Thursday off. You've had 10 days notice you feckless shitbags, can't you sort SOMETHING out in that time ? No, I don't want to swap with someone. I want the goddamn time off as a holiday. I'm too busy to swap shifts.

 

Tell you what. If I can't have Thursday off after giving you 10 days notice, you can keep your job. I'll find something else in the month we have off. Loan will see me in January. I'm probably going to take my laptop to work and mix my work there on my lunch hour.

 

Failing that I might just go in for two hours, feign illness and come home. Is £400 a month really worth this much hassle? I don't like them and they don't like me.

 

Tomorrow is the last chance my group gets to sort the filming out for a practical project. Our camera man is a complete tit who 'doesn't like' communicating, ignores the countless emails, texts, facebook messages and answer phone messages we leave him, and is so lackadaisical I've had to book the camera out because he 'can't get' to Media City.

 

This means I had to make a special trip before work to get the damn thing, and I'll have to take it back, specially. Funny, he seems to be able to email \ text \ facebook \ phone his bird constantly, and yet whenever we need him to do something he pleads poverty and claims he never has any credit. Our Cypriot director is hopeless and her paper edit is horrible. I'm going to have some hilarious fun editing this fucker down, I tell you. If anyone wants to come to Media City between 17-23 December, be my guest.

 

Oh, my days.

[andrew e]

Stop whinging Wat. Yeah your life is shite we get it! When you jack your job in send them Luxo's number to silence him too.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

That would be real punishment!

[Cavcraft]

EBay/Paypal are wankers.

[morris_ital_lover]

EBay/Paypal are wankers.

 

Amen to that.

[TimothyClaypole]

Will be paying them a nice Christmas bonus this week, £241.46

 

Where's the "bummed" smiley?

[cort16]

I didn't survice hurricanebawbag unscathed as I first thought. I went out to the Alfa this morning and

 

this

tiles by cort16, on Flickr

 

broke it's fall on this

bump by cort16, on Flickr

 

Pit of a pisser really as although there's a couple of different colours of silver there weren't any dents.

I've decide to sell it now as I bought it as I always fancied a super lusso 166 and now fancy something like an 850T5 estate for high speed dump hauling.

[Guest]

Stop whinging Wat. Yeah your life is shite we get it! When you jack your job in send them Luxo's number to silence him too.

 

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to vent now and again. Yeah, 'now and again'. Check back - when was the last time I posted anything about Uni in GOM?

 

Actually, you're right - I've got plenty good going on at the moment. The next time something pisses me off I'll forego the words on a screen and go straight to kicking someone's head in. It's so simple!

 

[autofive]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-16122323

[TimothyClaypole]

If that's found at a "yard" then the owners should be put out of business, if there was no one to buy it then they'd think twice about stealing it, or is that too simple?

 

I read somewhere that they stick stuff in containers to avoid that and just ship it out of the country?

[RoadworkUK]

Time for a "the youth of today" moan, I'm afraid.

 

22:58 and I pull up on a rain lashed Esso garage forecourt and splash £15 of the most reasonably priced unleaded in the local area into the tank. I'm lucky, I'm a regular and the guy in the shop knows me. I go in and pay. Transaction concludes at 23:01.

 

Peugeot 206 swings in containing two youths. Car is barried to the full extent that £40 worth of Halfords vouchers can achieve; seventeen year old, gaunt, skinny, feral driver squeezes past me as I leave the shop, shop guy says "I'm sorry mate, it's gone eleven, I have to close now". Peugeot bloke says "I only need some fags", shop guys says "sorry, can't help you, I have to close."

 

Guy's out of luck, and says "well, that's useful, isn't it, you prick", and leaves, before mouthing off to his mate in the car about the phenomenal and heartbreaking disapointment he's just experienced.

 

And me? I just wish I'd said something. Every fibre in my body urged to give the guy some verbal and a bit of an education. But then I realised it wouldn't achieve anything.

 

Don't know they're born, when I were a lad, clip round the earhole etc. etc. etc. I'm a thirty year old grumpy bastard.

[maxpower]

ed milliband use some vick's nasal spray ffs! he always sounds like a bunged up schoolboy

 

and that other prat with the annoying voice william hague.... stfu

[autofive]

the youth of today" moan number two

 

i was talking to someone outside a shop sunday lunchtime. a barried corsa with thumping bass, a bald tyre and shit-for-brains occupants mounts the pavement and sounds the horn to get us to move off the pavement because he's too lazy to use the car park provided, about 50 feet away. i turn round and look at his badly fitted spolier, silly bonnet vents and snigger, then turn around again and carry on talking. more horn is applied, we ignore it, eventually he stops 'revving' his 1300 corsa abortion and gets out leaving it with front end on the pavement, arse end on the road. when he returns from the shop, im closely studying his bald tyre and he opens the car door, turns and says 'what you fucking looking at?' i point at him and reply 'accident victim' and point at his car 'and next years baked bean tins' his passenger laughs, driver gets in and tries to wheelspin in reverse

[eddyramrod]

For a few days now my pickup has been giving me trouble starting. It would randomly answer a turn of the key with nothing more than a click. When I mentioned it to Andreas he diagnosed the starter, so today I took it to the electrician he uses as a subcontractor. Starter off and dismantled: it's the solenoid. New solenoid procured and fitted; 80 euros. Bugger. Still, if I hadn't done it you can guarantee it would have decided to fail exactly when someone wants to buy it, that's the way these things go. As it happens another of Andreas's customers is looking to replace his estate car, so we might be able to reach a deal. But that 80 euros hurt.

[ashmicro]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16138070

 

Rotten cunts. That's my local.

[boobydoo]

Time for a "the youth of today" moan, I'm afraid.

 

22:58 and I pull up on a rain lashed Esso garage forecourt and splash £15 of the most reasonably priced unleaded in the local area into the tank. I'm lucky, I'm a regular and the guy in the shop knows me. I go in and pay. Transaction concludes at 23:01.

 

Peugeot 206 swings in containing two youths. Car is barried to the full extent that £40 worth of Halfords vouchers can achieve; seventeen year old, gaunt, skinny, feral driver squeezes past me as I leave the shop, shop guy says "I'm sorry mate, it's gone eleven, I have to close now". Peugeot bloke says "I only need some fags", shop guys says "sorry, can't help you, I have to close."

 

Guy's out of luck, and says "well, that's useful, isn't it, you prick", and leaves, before mouthing off to his mate in the car about the phenomenal and heartbreaking disapointment he's just experienced.

 

And me? I just wish I'd said something. Every fibre in my body urged to give the guy some verbal and a bit of an education. But then I realised it wouldn't achieve anything.

 

Don't know they're born, when I were a lad, clip round the earhole etc. etc. etc. I'm a thirty year old grumpy bastard.

 

I think the shopkeeper was unreasonable in not serving the bloke to be honest. In what way would it have put him out to procure a packet of fags from the shelf at 23:01? What would it cost to have said, "You're lucky! I was just closing." and smiled.

Petrol forecourt service in this country IS shit.

[ashmicro]

^^ Unless he'd already turned off the EPOS.

[whitevanman]

/\/\ that may be, but ask the likes of Brammy or myself what it is like being on the serving side....there is two sides to that coin and trust me when I say most of the time you just can't wait to shut up shop, thats what we are paid to do, just like the liscence trade.

[dollywobbler]

X Factor is continuing to make me grumpy, but for a very different reason. I'm absolutely appalled by the way one of the girls in the popular beat combo apparently known as Little Mix is being referred to as 'fat.' I've had to delete a Facebook friend who went as far as to describe her as a bad role model for kids! FFS. Here's a fact for you. Not all women are skinny sticks. Here's another fact for you. Most blokes don't even like skinny sticks! You only have to check out how many blokes developed a sudden interest in cooking when Nigella Lawson appeared on our TV screens.

 

What's particularly incensing is that I'm now feeling sorry for a girl who's in a manufactured pop band and has won a TV competition that I absolutely cannot abide.

 

Before I finish, I will concede that (just like her band mates) the make-up and clothing situation is just ridiculous. It's like they fell into a make-up counter before losing a wresting match with a clothes horse. I know this because having seen the above comments of fatness, I was forced to Google the band - I actually had to spend quite a lot of time doing this as it wasn't even obvious which one was the 'fat' one.

[andrew e]

Actually, you're right - I've got plenty good going on at the moment. The next time something pisses me off I'll forego the words on a screen and go straight to kicking someone's head in. It's so simple!

 

Wat you need some medical help, I have never feel the need to kick anyones head in. Sorry if I've wound you up fella.

[trigger]

I'm with you on that Little Mix thing Dolly, She's hardly fat, a few weeks ago she was even crying on the show due to papers classing her as the fat one, FFS UK get a grip, not everyone is a size 6-8, I personally like a girl with a figure and nice boobs!.

 

I also agree in the clothing side of things as well, They dress awful!, It doesn't help that she has to wear though terrible leggings all the time, On the plus side the Blondie one (Perrie IIRC) look hot as you like last night, it was the first time i noticed her as they done her make up and hair more classy.

[Cavcraft]

Actually, you're right - I've got plenty good going on at the moment. The next time something pisses me off I'll forego the words on a screen and go straight to kicking someone's head in. It's so simple!

 

Wat you need some medical help, I have never feel the need to kick anyones head in. Sorry if I've wound you up fella.

 

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Jon's an ace lad and exceptionally good company.

[Cavcraft]

My pet hamster has more talent than the gobshites who feature on that dreadful programme and he died 27 years ago.