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  mk1_4dr said:
  RedSparrow said:
They recon most of the empty seats were for sponsors. So the cunts from McDonalds and Coca Cola can't be arsed to turn up for their free seats whilst thousands of people round the world missed out on seeing something they would've been genuinely interested in. Good work.

 

I can't speak for McD's employees, but I can assure you that us cunts at CocaCola haven't heard a sniff of corporate/free tickets to the Olympics.

 

The workers wont get any tickets, its the sponsors clients and people the upstairs managerial/sales cunts want to nosh off in exchange for some business getting thrown their way.

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  cort16 said:
It's not M15 that's after him it's interpol.

 

Oddly its been miscommunicated in the news about that Tom Daley kiddy. Its not the police that have arrested him its Interpool.

 

I'll get my coat.

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  Mr Lobster said:
I know its not a help in every firey situation, but the thought of something like that is why I have a fire extinguisher in my cars.

 

Chap must be devastated.

 

 

 

Sound advise, but by the look of that, he wasn't in the car at the time!

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  Ross_K said:
Fuck's sake. I had to google "Tom Daley tweet". Some twat tweeted that some swimmer had let down his dead father and the cops arrested him for malicious communications????? Is that even a real crime? What kind of retarded nanny state knee-jerk bullshit is this? This planet and the fuckwits that live on it make me despair sometimes.

 

THIS

 

I hope none of these curtain-twitching busy-bodies ever look in on here when it all kicks off!

Being called a cunt on here is a term of endearment! :lol:

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The thing I find incredible is we get all this "twitter troll arrested crap" and somehow, just somehow, Sickipedia still exists... it is a website that thrives on typing the untypeable and if ever you needed a case of "too soon" or "too far" sickipedia will provide it.

 

*Disclaimer - If you subsequently go onto sickipedia and are offended by what you see, I bear no responsibility for your actions.... you silly billy.

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I have been moaning about TWEETGATE on FB this morning and apparently* the guy actually threatened to kill Tom Daley by drowning after he made the questionable comments about his dad. For some reason though, the BBC have elected not to report this fact so while it seems like he's been nicked for making a bad joke, he's actually been held for making threats of violence. Still stupid and shocking that you can get done for making offhand comments on the internet, but now the Grump has become "why the fuck aren't the news reporting the facts?"

 

 

*According to my mate anyway. I've literally not done anything to validate this claim.

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I've heard that too Barratt. Not seen any evidence myself but I have seen a copied tweet of this idiot's threatening to sue Sky News for reporting about it. Clearly he's a few sprockets short of a full set of gears.

 

My guess is that the news folks have deliberately left the 'threats to kill' out as it makes it more sensational. Bit disappointing as I hoped the Beeb was above such behaviour.

 

It's a tricky one though. We've just had that case where a bloke 'threatened' to blow up an airport. You can't read emotion in an online post. Or sarcasm.

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Is it possible buy any car part on ebay without it being some Chinese made piece of shit? Order came today for the basic incandescent bulbs I'd bought, packet with HIGH POWERED LEDS plastered all over it, oh what's the piece of tungsten wire in the middle of each bulb?

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  dollywobbler said:
IMy guess is that the news folks have deliberately left the 'threats to kill' out as it makes it more sensational. Bit disappointing as I hoped the Beeb was above such behaviour.

 

It's a tricky one though. We've just had that case where a bloke 'threatened' to blow up an airport. You can't read emotion in an online post. Or sarcasm.

 

Wasn't it great that the judge in that case was able to use some common sense?

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/le ... 82426.html

 

  Quote
Common sense has finally prevailed in the case of Paul Chambers, the Doncaster man whose conviction for sending a "menacing electronic communication" on Twitter was quashed yesterday in the High Court.

 

...It is ridiculous that Mr Chambers was ever prosecuted, still more so that the case went through a failed appeal before the High Court finally came to the right decision.

 

Social media in general, and Twitter in particular, amount to nothing less than a revolution in how society operates. It remains at its early stages, and we are still feeling our way through these new channels of communication. Jokes – especially bad ones – can easily be misinterpreted. But that doesn't excuse the ordeal Mr Chambers has been put through.

 

If I wanted to blow up a plane/airport or kill someone I sure as fuck wouldn't write about it on Facebook or Twitter beforehand.

 

Ergo anybody who does tweet stuff like that is a keyboard warrior, and isn't going to do anything of the sort. Some day I'll be proven wrong I'm sure. :P :P

 

I can't moan about UK law though. I live in a country that outlawed BLASPHEMY :roll::roll: a couple of years ago. How fucking medieval is that?

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Fucking Yahoo. It has NOT BEEN FUCKING FIXED. OK, I get that shit happens, systems go down blah blah blah - but it would be NICE if you could be arsed to give us a bit of a clue wtf is going on?

 

*rage-rage-rage-rage*

 

EDIT: OK, colour me mortified. Replacement sulk:

 

Fucking Firefox. You are a PIECE OF SHIT since wanting to be upgraded every 30 seconds followed by breaking everything.

 

Yes, Yahoo is working.

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  Louise2cv said:
You wouldn't believe how often certain policeofficers go out for this kind of sh*t. Honestly grown adults call the cops because "so-and-so sent me two texts" and "someone called me a slapper"on Facebook. Jeez.

 

I doubt (although I don't know for sure) these incidents result in arrests day to day and they certainly don't make the news!

 

Yet when I ring them up about morons riding 250 motocross bikes across the park where dog walkers are and people walking with kids they say 'someone will be there as soon as possible, hopefully within an hour'

 

 

Guess they are all too busy following up people being talked about.

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I'm giving up trying to sell the Black Racings on eBay.

 

Tried some wheel boards, the blue forum - nothing, unless I want to let them go for £50, because apparently that's all they're worth.

 

I can't be arsed paying their extortionate fees only to have someone message me offering a tenth of the price and wanting money off because 'everyone's skint at the moment'. Why is it that everything I try to sell is worthless, and yet rusty piece of shit Fords and the like get creamed over and people can't wait to get their wallets out? Why should I get my pants pulled down over the worth of something only to make chump change?

 

Ebay's got too big for its boots, it's just full of penniless chancers wanting the moon on a stick.

 

Thanks eBay. I could have really done with these selling. Could have really, really used the money.

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Apparently this is the accommodation that the troops are sleeping in that are looking after the olympics, it's a empty multistory car park, Nice to see the troops getting well looked after, i bet the G4 guards wouldn't have sleep in this if they had actually fulfilled their contract and employed them.

 

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To be fair though, you don't join the Armed Forces if you expect to be put up in hotels. These soldiers are on a military operation and, as operational living conditions go, that ain't bad. You will probably find that while certain mums and wives will rant about how outrageous it is, the vast majority of the lads will think nothing of it and just crack on.

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Staying at my mum's house this week. With the slowest internet connection in the world. Like slower than dial up was. They seem to think it's fine though and happily pay BT a stupid amount every month for it. :roll:

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  trigger said:
Apparently this is the accommodation that the troops are sleeping in that are looking after the olympics, it's a empty multistory car park, Nice to see the troops getting well looked after, i bet the G4 guards wouldn't have sleep in this if they had actually fulfilled their contract and employed them.

 

Better than sleeping in a hole in the ground in Afghanistan. Not by much, but at least the locals ain't taking pot shots at you...

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Spot the difference

 

RW_fubar_060525_2m.jpg

london-riots-hackney.jpg

 

Prizes for IDing the cars! I think the second is a Pluriel?

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  willswitchengage said:
Spot the difference

 

The first pic contains no spelling mistakes. The car looks like an 104, I'm sure that colour was popular back in the day, too.

Posted
  willswitchengage said:
Spot the difference

 

The top photo was taken in a country where its safe to go out at night

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Being Iraq I'd guess a Corolla

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  Negative Creep said:
Being Iraq I'd guess a Corolla

 

Engine on "wrong" side = Not Toyota, but Honda.

Manifold high up at rear, and pointing inwards.

Battery position.

 

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11,600 Euros (that's over nine grand) in Greek taxes! Up from about 7k Euros.

 

The 'basic' income tax is about 6k, AND THEY WANT ANOTHER 4 GRAND ON TOP OF IT AS A FUCKING DEPOSIT FOR NEXT YEAR, when it's probably all going to be in drachmas anyway.

 

And then there's the 'one-off' (had that two years in a row) 'solidarity' tax. And an additional few hundred because it's from rental income. And even after I have paid for all of this shite, they'll send me ANOTHER bill for property tax.

 

Fat chance of getting the job at tomorrow's interview in my current state.

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First one is mk3 Astra.

 

The alt has been rumbly on my mr2. Tonight after leaving work at 11.30 halfway between hotel -BANG- bearings in alt goes. Had the common sense to bring an MGF alt (which fits but needs snipping wiring), so I spent next hour, flipping knackered and starving and needing to urinate in the pitch black with a simple Toyota toolkit (bless that toolkit) swapping them over using an MR2 hayne wiring and Internet to work out which wire went were. Wedged the alt against the belt by forcing the piece of wood on top of the battery to keep it tight. Got home with just a little squeal. Beat that AA/RAC.

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  Station said:

 

Mister Two alternator woes

 

Surely your MAD BUSHCRAFT SKILLS YO are worthy of inclusion in the grin, rather than grumpy thread?

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Fucking employment agencies (again)

 

9.00am I ring agency to ask where the hell are my wages. Agent gets snotty and says he'll refuse to pay until the client signs off hours. (illegal)

9.03 Evil Warren is let out of the cellar and jumps in my 406 and heads to employment agencies office.

9.22 Evil Warren arrives at office to note that it's a shared office block with a steroid enhanced meat-head as a security guard.

9.23 Evil Warren tries one last attempt at diplomacy and rings agent. Apparently he's in a meeting and won't discuss my problems further.

9.24 Evil Warren sees agents Audi A4 in the car park around the side of the building and wonders whether to trash it.

9.26 Evil Warren decides to use his transferable skills from his days as a bailiff/repossession agent.

9.27 Evil Warren parks his 406 at 45 degrees to the side of agents A4 and opens rear passenger door of 406.

9.28 Evil Warren puts on his best sorry face and walks into the foyer and tells the security guard that I've had a small accident with a Black Audi, reg DK59*** in the car park. Sted head ring agency office to inform them of their bad luck.

9.29 Evil Warren returns to the car park and waits out of sight.

9.30 Agent strides purposefully into the car park to inspect damage not realising that Evil Warren is a couple of paces behind him.

9.31 Agent falls into back of 406.

9.31:01 Agent tries to escape out of jammed rear nearside passenger door of 406. (I really must fix that)

9.31:15 Agent attempts to call police on iPhone.

9.31:20 Evil Warren acquires iPhone.

9.32 Evil Warren explains what he's going to do to agent.

9.32:05 Agent befouls himself.

9.32:15 Agent starts to cry.

9.32:30 Agent somehow has changed his mind about paying me and agrees to contact payroll on his iPhone.

9.38 Evil Warrens accountant confirms payment.

 

I really wish there was another way. :cry:

Posted

Fecking 'ell WTC, that sounds like something from a 1970s gangland movie :D Glad you got your money. Will said agent pass any more work to you?

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hes not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

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