The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

Why dont things just work out...

 

A few weeks ago I slapped up a 'WANTED' ad at my local shop looking for a garage to rent. Ole_Ma_Sterling has a new job up Scouse land and wont be taking her car with her as she'll be staying up there during the week. I dont want to have 2 cars outside the house on the road (I dont have a drive, let alone a garage) so I was looking for a garage to rent in the local area for a few months, particularly during the winter period. I had an idea that if the Rover could at least squeeze into the garage I could alternate usage between the 2 cars and give the cars less chance of seeing winter.

 

I didnt think my ad would reach out until I received a call this morning from a fella who'd seen my advert. He had a garage belonging to his sisters flat which was on the market but had no takers so the garage lay empty, we reached an agreement over the phone and he said he'd get back to me before 5pm today, he still hasnt got back to me and I'm anxious to get a place for the car. Looks like it'll be back to square one if this doesnt go through

[dollywobbler]

ITV. Not just because of 'that' programme, but last night I was waiting for some friends in a hotel. Not a very nice hotel, made worse by the large TV screen with ITV stuck permanently upon it in the bar. Because nothing makes eating out feel special like having a big f*ck off telly blaring noise at you like you get at home.

 

During my time observing said telly, a programme called Take Me Out came on. I expected to be like Blind Date. A bit of friendly chat, some questions and a clip showing a complete disaster as the couple fall out with each other. Oh not a bit of it!

 

The show opened with the sort of screaming that used to signal that The Beatles were in town. Then a parade of what I think were meant to be ladies poured out, waving their arms in the air as if their armpits were on fire and covered in the sort of make-up usually reserved for Barbara Cartland. They all had ridiculous names like Felicarooney and Pomegranate and apparently no shame at all. This was truly horrible. Then it got worse. The bloke appeared. I say bloke. Not many blokes pluck their eyebrows. A bloke should have oily fingernails and not hair that looks expensive. Or that sort of smug, self-centred attitude that can only come from a bloke trying to justify buying bottles of pheromone spray and moisturiser.

 

And that's seen as entertainment?! When the f*ck did I become 87?!

 

Then I came home and watched Strictly Come Dancing and all feels well with the world now. Apart from Bruce Forcyth. He's a useless, unfunny twat.

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebay - No I don't want to give money to charity when I'm paying for a purchase.

 

Also i don't want to when I'm selling something either.

 

If you are that generous then take some of last months £145.00 I paid you and give it away yourselves you grabbing bastards.

 

(I've not paid it as the payment bounced - last time that happened I paid it as a one off payment then they took it themselves again at a later date and refused to give it back...)

[Cavcraft]

Ah yes, ITV. What a crock of bollocks that channel is, but even more so in the morning when you either have airheaded gobshites presenting the news, or cockfaced gobshites presenting programmes afterwards.

[RedSparrow]

For the last few years the only thing I watched on ITV was Harry Hills TV burp, ironic as it is show mocking other shows. ITV being the lowest common denominator was kind of ok as I wasn't paying for it. I really resent BBC3 though as we pay for it and it's complete trash TV. The beeb used to kind of set an example, but have sold out to doing moron television as well now.

Look at the latest Jerry Springer episodes from the USA if you want to see the shape of things to come. It's like a Victorian freak show.

[messerschmitt owner]

redsparrow is that Al Bundy in your avatar?

[RedSparrow]

Yes! After all I said about trashy TV I do enjoy Married with Children!

[sporty-shite]

Well, Our Maud came home last night and said car was running a bit lumpy.

 

"It was dead low on petrol, so I stopped to put a bit in. I only put £7 in, because it was taking ages. It went dead chuggy, so I took it for a blast up the motorway, then stopped at another garage to put another £10 in."

 

Went outside later on, and notice spillage down the side of the car. She's only put diesel in it.

 

How the fuck it got her home amazes me. Another job for me, but it can wait till we're back off holiday, now. Good job I've still got the Scirocco as spare car.

[messerschmitt owner]

Yes! After all I said about trashy TV I do enjoy Married with Children!

MWC was a fantastic programme - and it had CHristina Applegate in it ...

[Angrydicky]

I came out of the tyre centre earlier after getting a pair of new tyres fitted. An old giffer was looking around my A35, through the windows and all over the bodywork.

 

I waited for him to say something, eventually he said "You've ruined it with that radio and stuff" (temperature gauge, speakers)

 

I then informed him that the radio had been fitted over 25 years ago, and as such was a 'period modification'.

 

"Oh" he said.

 

What the fuck!

[vulgalour]

yeah, similar experience at a car show when some giffer said to me "he's spoiled that Minor with those alloys" until I pointed out they were likely only slightly newer than the car they were on and the whole thing was modified in period and keeping with the car itself. People are strange.

 

I can't prove they were, but I'm pretty sure the driver of a new Vauxhall hatchback we were behind on the way home late last night was drunk. The way the car was speeding up and slowing down, and weaving from curb to white line made me feel like I was in the camera car of one of those Police Camera Explosion type programmes. I wish we'd had the means on us to get in contact with the local plod, just to check it out, drinking and driving is not cool and is a major grump of mine.

[DSdriver]

PCI compliance. What a waste of time and money. No one able to give the advice on how to make my chip and pin terminal safe on ethernet so have had to go back to using it on a phone line. The up side is that it saves me three or four quid a month.

[quicksilver]

I can't prove they were, but I'm pretty sure the driver of a new Vauxhall hatchback we were behind on the way home late last night was drunk. The way the car was speeding up and slowing down, and weaving from curb to white line made me feel like I was in the camera car of one of those Police Camera Explosion type programmes. I wish we'd had the means on us to get in contact with the local plod, just to check it out, drinking and driving is not cool and is a major grump of mine.

I had a similar experience a couple of years ago following a shabby old Escrot whose driver seemed to be drunk and/or on drugs. His speed was all over the place, one minute he was in the gutter and the next on the white line, he kept braking on straights for no reason and indicating where there weren't any turnings. It was hard work keeping a safe distance behind and I was terrified he would do something really stupid and I'd run into the back of him. Not sure which is more annoying really, being behind or in front of such drivers.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

For the last few years the only thing I watched on ITV was Harry Hills TV burp, ironic as it is show mocking other shows. ITV being the lowest common denominator was kind of ok as I wasn't paying for it. I really resent BBC3 though as we pay for it and it's complete trash TV. The beeb used to kind of set an example, but have sold out to doing moron television as well now.

Look at the latest Jerry Springer episodes from the USA if you want to see the shape of things to come. It's like a Victorian freak show.

 

People who like BBC3 buy TV licences too. The channel has a fair amount of dross on it (what channel doesn't?) but it also produces quality programming. I don't like sports coverage, the weather, local news, Round Britain Quiz or Eastenders but I don't resent their existence.

[willswitchengage]

BBC3 is basically just buying up cheap foreign shows, it's budget is only 4% of the license fee. If you think it's rubbish (which I agree with) then I find it amusing that's its viewing figures are still double Sky 1's. I've reluctantly lived with enough low lifes to realise that there really is a massive market for this crap daytime TV stuff, oo also talking of TV the end of "built in Britain" last night has some nice shots of the M25 in the 80s

[vulgalour]

I thought BBC3 was the young person's channel from the content on it, there's been one or two programmes on that channel I've enjoyed though not as many, perhaps, as there are on BBC4. But then I have the mental age of a pensioner, so that's probably why.

[Guest]

'Oh, stop being negative.'

 

Oh, come closer while I stab you with a bread knife. Fucking prick.

[Pillock]

There'll never be anyone who likes every TV channel.... BBC3 isn't bad, certainly not one of the worst channels.

In a similar vein, I've realised I'm officially old since I refuse to listen to Radio 1 in the morning - Moyles got dumped, they've brought in some tossbag idiot who bleats on about kiddie pop bands and loves the sound of his own stupid laugh. So I'm switching to Radio 2. The annoying thing is the BBC freaked when the average age of R1 listeners crept up to 32.... yeah, that's really old. So they're now reducing the average age to that of students (who all sleep in till midday and don't listen to the breakfast show), and teenagers who think the radio is crap and will just torrent some albums instead.

[Guest]

I'm a student. I don't sleep in until midday. I do think most of Radio 1 is crap so I usually end up torrenting some albums instead.

And also, I'm really negative. Really, really negative.

[dollywobbler]

I'm now so old that I think Radio 2 is shit. I'm 34 and rapidly running out of radio stations to listen to. I did listen to Test Match Special on radio 4 in the Bluebird when I collected it from Bristol. That did feel entirely appropriate.

 

BBC3 is filled with annoying shitty ITV-esque programmes like How Fit is Your Mum and Skint People - They're Funny! But it also has Russell Howard's Good News which while childish, does put a much more pleasant spin on the world than the real news and is a fine antidote to Daily Mail Britain. Which I think is the point.

[Lord Sterling]

Work

 

The night-shift stand-in supervisor seems to have turned on me. He's been trying to bully me and ordering me about like some crazed dictator, picking me every time to do the hard tasks (I work the day shift but my shift overlaps his). Today he moaned about the work and that I hadnt loaded the trailer (which I wasnt aware I was supposed to do) he tried to seriously rile me up, I told him to do one and if he had a problem to go and see the manager. The of course we had another face off latre on in which I was told under no uncertain terms that if I didnt start "working" (Eh? I do work) that he'd see the manager and I'll be out of the job.

 

Funnily enough, this lad himself is on his last warning due to past behaviour and the manager himself knows he is out of order.

[Morgan84]

Maybe have a word with the manager and get that sorry little twerp kicked firmly out on his backside

[philibusmo]

There'll never be anyone who likes every TV channel.... BBC3 isn't bad, certainly not one of the worst channels.

In a similar vein, I've realised I'm officially old since I refuse to listen to Radio 1 in the morning - Moyles got dumped, they've brought in some tossbag idiot who bleats on about kiddie pop bands and loves the sound of his own stupid laugh. So I'm switching to Radio 2. The annoying thing is the BBC freaked when the average age of R1 listeners crept up to 32.... yeah, that's really old. So they're now reducing the average age to that of students (who all sleep in till midday and don't listen to the breakfast show), and teenagers who think the radio is crap and will just torrent some albums instead.

 

I would just like to point out that as a 20 year old Radio 1s sudden obsession with everything that 15 year olds love and absolutely nothing else has really fucked me off.

I am now stuck with absolutely no radio stations to listen to.

Radio 1 - SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT ONE FUCKING DIRECTION AND NEVER EVER FUCKING MENTION THEM AGAIN

Radio 2 - I find very dreary, there has been life since 1990.

Radio 4 - my current favourite. It's not utterly vapid and is often very interesting.

The rest - dull, miserable, classical or full of adverts for Trago Mills.

 

So as a 20 year old with a wide variety of interests and a genuine enjoyment of many areas of modern music I have now ended up at Radio 4.

Fucking well done.

Also Nick Grimshaw has terrible hair and sounds like a young Dale Winton.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Radio 4 is for winners anyway, so count your blessings

[Morgan84]

Classic FM,BBC Local Radio or Classic Gold for me

[Guest]

Radio 4 is for winners anyway, so count your blessings

 

If the shite I have purchased has a radio, it gets locked on R4 as I drive from miles down South back home in the small hours. In the rain. On ditchfinders. R4 is superb in the evening.

[Cavcraft]

Work

 

The night-shift stand-in supervisor seems to have turned on me. He's been trying to bully me and ordering me about like some crazed dictator, picking me every time to do the hard tasks (I work the day shift but my shift overlaps his). Today he moaned about the work and that I hadnt loaded the trailer (which I wasnt aware I was supposed to do) he tried to seriously rile me up, I told him to do one and if he had a problem to go and see the manager. The of course we had another face off latre on in which I was told under no uncertain terms that if I didnt start "working" (Eh? I do work) that he'd see the manager and I'll be out of the job.

 

Funnily enough, this lad himself is on his last warning due to past behaviour and the manager himself knows he is out of order.

 

 

I find the best way of revenge in situations like this is to rile the fucker right up just as the manager is nearing, then act all innocent party. Timed to perfection it's great, I got a right grovelling apology of some manager at my old work place a few years back even though I'd started this particular argument.

[pompei]

Except for The Archers. I fucking hate The Archers.

[Guest]

Except for The Archers. I fucking hate The Archers.

 

+1

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The archers does admittedly suck colossal dairy herd c0ck, if that even exists