The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

What year/reg is it Dukey? Anything common rail won't like it but older Isuzu ones should get away with it for a while at least. Allegedly.

[Cheggers]

I fly back to the UK tomorrow and my car is sat in a car park at Heathrow with feck all petrol in it....not feeling terribly optimistic about it

[MrDuke]

What year/reg is it Dukey? Anything common rail won't like it but older Isuzu ones should get away with it for a while at least. Allegedly.

 

 

'Tis a 52-plate, and deffo an Isuzu (V5 says 1686cc which I think confirms it) so I'll probably sling some in before setting off anywhere - warm weather should help too I guess.

[MrDuke]

I fly back to the UK tomorrow and my car is sat in a car park at Heathrow with feck all petrol in it....not feeling terribly optimistic about it

 

Pick up a couple of litres of duty-free Vodka, and some nail-varnish remover. Sorted.

[dollywobbler]

I fly back to the UK tomorrow and my car is sat in a car park at Heathrow with feck all petrol in it....not feeling terribly optimistic about it

 

Pick up a couple of litres of duty-free Vodka, and some nail-varnish remover. Sorted.

 

Is that to bribe the bird on the till so you can jump the queue?

[Cavcraft]

I fly back to the UK tomorrow and my car is sat in a car park at Heathrow with feck all petrol in it....not feeling terribly optimistic about it

 

Pick up a couple of litres of duty-free Vodka, and some nail-varnish remover. Sorted.

 

Is that to bribe the bird on the till so you can jump her?

 

EFA.

[mattblack]

Went to the local Co-op after work today, after negotiating the queue for fuel (probably made up mainly of people who do 2 miles a week to see their sister Dolly and now have a full tank of fuel in their Yaris that will last them about 10 years) I walked across the car park and saw an OMG! IMPREEEEZZZA INNIT! in a disabled bay... but it's got a blue badge on the dash so I thought 'fair play'. Coming out of the shop there were 3 people in front of me walking quite slowly, a bloke carrying a 6-pack of Carling and a carrier bag came striding past... and guess which car he got in?

[dollywobbler]

Went to the local Co-op after work today, after negotiating the queue for fuel (probably made up mainly of people who do 2 miles a week to see their sister Dolly and now have a full tank of fuel in their Yaris that will last them about 10 years) I walked across the car park and saw an OMG! IMPREEEEZZZA INNIT! in a disabled bay... but it's got a blue badge on the dash so I thought 'fair play'. Coming out of the shop there were 3 people in front of me walking quite slowly, a bloke carrying a 6-pack of Carling and a carrier bag came striding past... and guess which car he got in?

 

Ugh. That sort of thing REALLY pisses me off. Our local Morrisons has LOTS of parking spaces, yet still the retarded fuck wits of Aberystwyth like to park in the drop-off bays which makes me VERY upset when I'm doing volunteer bus driving as I can never get my bus anywhere near the front door for the not-very-able old dears aboard my bus. Fair enough if you're grabbing some cash from the ATM, but people park there for ages buying all sorts of shit and their laziness properly annoys me.

 

However, I did once witness one girl getting seriously pissed off because she came back and found her car blocked in by a combination of other fuckwits and a cash-delivery van. The security driver seemed to enjoy taking a very long time to move away that day. That made me grin (sorry, wrong thread!).

 

I don't really understand why idiots feel that they can't walk a few feet from a proper parking space. I've seen one big fat minicab driver park almost at the doors of Halfords before now. Prick.

[Albert Ross]

Yeah, they all park as close as fuck to the door of the supermarket, yet then walk round a room the size of a football pitch for 45 minutes..... But they can't walk in daylight for more than 3 yards. Are they disabled. No, they're Vampires.

I have been known to block the ignorant cunts in, and then move them on, in true "Jobsworth" Security Guard style. I ain't a Security Guard, but the paintjob says so.

[MrDuke]

I have been known to block the ignorant cunts in, and then move them on, in true "Jobsworth" Security Guard style.

 

I'd skip the blocking in bit, and just 'move them on', preferably into a road, with the front bumper of the Landy.

[Negative Creep]

Dsiability may not mean you struggle to get out of the car, for example some people can walk comfortably for short distances. That said, from your description he was probably a prick using gran's badge.

 

Just been to fill mine up (due to the fuel light being on) and it was still fairly busy. Standing in the queue I did notice that 3 or the 4 people in front of me put less than £25 in.

 

That should see me through until the end of the month though, and avoid the next round of chaos if the strike goes ahead. The stupidity of the general public has however left me thoroughly depressed

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Battery dead again. 5 days of opening and closing the doors just for changing the bloody parking clock have done away with it. 2 hours of electricity didn't manage to put enough juice into my mini battery charger, and tomorrow I have to travel all the way to Solihull for an interview. With a bit of 'luck', lots of fun will be had tomorrow.

[Lord Sterling]

Panic buying mongs. I knew there talk about this but I didnt realise/care that people were actually doing this

until I actually needed petrol so I can actually go to work tomorrow.

 

Should have filled up when I went to petrol station to hoover and clean out the spare wheel well this afternoon.

[wuvvum]

Got the Merc started, after much faffing around, with the help of its previous owner who'd run it out of diesel before so knew how to get it going again. The computer still has the virus though, and AVG doesn't seem to have picked it up, so I might end up having to follow one of those online guides and bugger about in the registry, which I hate doing. Mind you, this computer is six years old now and is starting to struggle to keep up, so it might be time for an upgrade anyway.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

At least I don't have to worry about that. Flogas own and operate their own tankers.

 

Hoyer has one of the highest health, safety and training standards in the petroleum distribution sector.

This has resulted in a health and safety record of which Hoyer is proud.

 

I must look for a job in PR. He makes HR people look positively competent.

[scooters]

FUCKING HELL!

[scooters]

right,

 

what really really really gets up my nose is smug babybooming twats (not every babyboomer - just the smug ones) who spent all the cash and enjoy their retirements at 58 due to their pension plan banging on about how they 'worked hard all my life' when their prosperity has come from essentially working for a third of their lives and through the massive inflation in house prices over the last 40 odd years, fueled by their insatiable greed to accumulate more crap in their lives. Not content with free education, free health, final salary pensions, retire at 40 etc they drove the house price inflation down a model that was unsustainable - why? because there would come a point where it would no longer be affordable. That point is now - the reason why it costs so much to fucking live in this country is because of the cost of fucking house prices hence mortgages, rents etc. I hope they enjoyed their lives because their kids, grandkids and great grandkids will be paying for it for years. cunts

 

Why is the country angry? Why are folk raging, why are folk striking - Because the economy is fucked and those who caused it are not the ones who are suffering and the rest of us need to shout about it - , and just about the only thing I agree on with that lubricious cunt, Osborne, is the so called granny tax! Now, lets see if he has the balls to bring in a system of investment responsibility for those other cunts..the bankers..why is it that in my business, if it fails I lose everything, house, reputation, the works whereas a cunt in a bank ONLY gets a bonus even for failure? I'm all for rewarding those who are creative but let them stake their reputations and family prosperity on their investments! At the moment they dance off into the sunset with a bonus only marginally less than the one they would have got had they succeeded. THESE CUNTS SHOULD BE SHOT

[ashmicro]

Hear hear Scooters. My late Missus said much the same thing, and she was in property as both a landlord and estate agent. I remember her saying to me one time "This is madness. There are people getting mortgages of 135% bases on 7.5 times their salary. Houses are sucking all the money out of the economy." She actually talked a young couple OUT of buying an apartment in Belfast because they were so young and didn't realise what they were letting themselves in for. Their £300k, 100% mortgage was approved in 1 day by the Ulster Bank, which is now reputed to be £900 million in the hole.

[scooters]

Almost spluffed in me pants this morning in sheer amusement on hearing of Gorgeous George's victory in the Bradford by-election. White faced labour party members - a 20,000 majority...some tory MP got all pompous about the 'extremist' parties on the radion this morning...well wake up you pricks the reason why the voters of Bradford voted for Galloway is because THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS BEEN SO BUSY SCRABBLING FOR POWER THAT THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT THEIR FIRST DUTY IS TO REPRESENT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE they do NOT exist to impose THEIR will on the people.

 

These cunts obviously do not read their history because every revolution be it right or left is initiated by a political class losing it's understanding of the mood of the people.

 

Now I have little time for Gorgeous or any extremist but are they surprised? 3 parties, all fighting over the same Alistair Campbell dictated bit of 1997 middle ground pie

 

FUCK OFF

 

twats

 

(sorry about the bad mood this morning - the 2 year old had me up all night and my condition hurts like fuck today)

[scooters]

Fucking cunts

 

Fuel shortages!

 

I don't blame the proles, they don't know any better and the old giffers will fill their tanks to the brim for the 2 mile a week journey - I blame those cunts in the government who open their mouths and let their arses speak. I mean- what do they think is going to happen when they tell everyone to fill up? well, the head of the petrol retail association spelled it out on Today - the filling stations run out and the delivery schedule tips into back log - ie there is NO CAPACITY to increase deliveries - if a station gets a deliver on a Thursday and it has run out on the Saturday then there is NO OTHER DELIVERY between those days - THAT is the backlog.

 

Thanks Cameron you cunt, your inability to handle this crisis and to manage the news and your fucking twat of a cabinet office minister is going to result in us not being able to visit our dying aunt in the highlands this weekend, it is going to result in me having to cancel a vital face to face meeting next week and it now looks like the kids are not going to get away for a couple of days over easter for their first break since July last year. Public transport isn't an option because it's TOO FUCKIN EXPENSIVE and doesn't serve two of the places we need to get to anyway

 

 

you cunts

[Danblez]

This shouldnt be in the grumpy thread but that is some top grumping scoots!

 

I have decided the only way to deal with all the shite that is going down at the moment is to ignore it. I am giving up reading and watching the news and am going to live a life of blissful ignorance. There are far more important things to worry about like your health and happiness!

[MrDuke]

I have decided the only way to deal with all the shite that is going down at the moment is to ignore it. I am giving up reading and watching the news and am going to live a life of blissful ignorance.

 

That's exactly what I've been doing for the last year, it's helped my blood pressure no end. Mrs_Duke otoh can't live without at least one Radio 4 debate and half a dozen news bulletins a day, and thinks I should be taking more interest in what goes on in the world. Actually, the few problems that directly affect me at the moment bring quite enough bile into my life, without looking for anything else.

[scooters]

that's why you guys will live longer than me!

 

seriously though - apologies for the filthy language and any giffers, politicians or bankers I may have upset..that's what happens when my tramadol wears off

[RedSparrow]

I am so pleased I left the UK. It sounds shit and getting shitter. I know people have been saying that for 30 odd years but it really seems to be coming to a head now.

[morris_ital_lover]

Some fucking numpties have re-elected George Galloway.... great now we have to be subjected to his pontification all over again.

[ashmicro]

Galloway plays the inverse race card to get elected. He did it before. One-trick pony.

[richardthestag]

For Scooters rants this morning

 

 

[jonathan_dyane]

Got the Merc started, after much faffing around, with the help of its previous owner who'd run it out of diesel before so knew how to get it going again. The computer still has the virus though, and AVG doesn't seem to have picked it up, so I might end up having to follow one of those online guides and bugger about in the registry, which I hate doing. Mind you, this computer is six years old now and is starting to struggle to keep up, so it might be time for an upgrade anyway.

 

Download malwarebytes and have a go at that,will likely fix it

[dollywobbler]

I am so pleased I left the UK. It sounds shit and getting shitter. I know people have been saying that for 30 odd years but it really seems to be coming to a head now.

 

It is shit, but it's still amazingly easy to ignore it when you live miles from civilisation. I sit outside (in the sun lately - incredible) sip tea and think "this ain't so bad you know." It's shite at the moment, but it's not exactly Zimbabwe is it? I hope more George Galloways get a shoe in though. He's a complete prick, but at least he's not one of the main parties.

[Negative Creep]

Galloway is a detestable prick who plays the race card to win votes.

 

On another grump, my internet has stopped working. Checked the Plusnut site and it appears to be a wide ranging network problem