The grumpy thread

[Richard]

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.

 

You're not too old for Radio 2, you're too young by about 30 years.

[Lord Sterling]

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.

 

Cheers for the advice Cav. Sadly, the Manager always leaves around 4.30pm, the fake 'supervisor' comes in at 5pm. As I said the Manager knows of his behavior, I have previously mentioned to the manager about this before without realising he was going to take action in which the lad was called in.

 

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

 

Thats what I'm looking to do when the Manager returns.

[vulgalour]

Have another work related grump. Today I turned up as I was supposed to so that I could restart my old job thanks to Skattrd generously loaning me transport. All was going swimmingly, I was early, had been well organised and felt ready to get on with a job I know how to do and was looking forward to being back at work lugging stuff about. So my day starts at 4am, leave the house at 5am and my shift properly starts at 6am, though I have to be there early to clock in on time so I don't get wages docked, being agency staff is gr0.002. However, it turns out my name wasn't on the list so I wasn't allowed in. Was given the option to wait for a manager to appear, who didn't, so was told to go home and phone the agency office when they open to find out wtf is going on.

 

Not very happy about this at all because now I'm in limbo with the whole thing. I know how to do the job, I can arrive and get straight on with it, no worries, but they insist I go through the induction again when all they actually need to do is give me an appropriately coloured hi-vis jacket and my new log in number for the clocking in machine. What a ball ache. More annoying still is that it's likely I'll have to wait yet another week for the next induction before they set me on which delays getting cars sorted out even longer.

 

I'll be ringing my existing agency back. I'll probably also ring around the other agencies to see what anyone else can offer me in the way of factory, warehouse, clerical or retail work since I've got a nice varied CV these days. I just want to go to work and get paid at the end of the week, is that really so much to ask?

 

Edited to add: They forgot to add me to the list. I won't start there for another week now which really does balls things up for me. Going to call around other agencies to see if I can get any work in the meantime.

[Negative Creep]

Except for The Archers. I fucking hate The Archers.

 

+1

 

 

I have 'Nam style flashbacks when I hear the theme tune. My parents loved it, and would always plan dinner around it. So every single day we had to sit there eating in complete silence listening to it

[whitevanman]

I like Radio 4 and the Archers......sorry

[messerschmitt owner]

I like bits of radio 4, bits of radio 2, none of radio 1 and bits of my local bbc station.

 

I hates Steve Wright when he was on R1 and still hate him now, am glad Wogan is no longer on the airwaves when I am listening, hate Jeremy Vine and the Archers but love Just a Minute ...

[Vin]

Another vote for Radio 4 here. I listen to R4 and the excellent 6 Music during the day and evening. 1 hour of Radio 2 a week for Mike Harding, then Fivelive all weekend during the football season.

[cort16]

For all those thats said the Honda Civic would be "too easy" to drive to Barcelona. After a 5 mile trip in it, it was pissing smoke out the bonnet. It looks like there's an oil leak onto the bottom of the exhaust manifold, which must have pooled while it's been sitting for 3 weeks. Hopefully it'll be okay once it's burn't itself off. v-tec YO!

[holbeck]

+1 for R4

 

Back in the day I used to find myself somwhere on the M1 most days, come 2pm Steve Wright came on R1 and it's time to retune.

Quite a while later, I suddenly realised the radio had never gone back and I'd crossed a rubicon spose I was about 30, so far too old for R1 according to the BBC

[Caffiend]

Although I can't remember any of them *right now*, I am sure that I have retained all sorts of strange and interesting* facts about sheep from waking up to Farming Today.

 

I miss the old Shipping Forecast though - the new announcer somehow just isn't so poetic.

[Skizzer]

All radio is dead to me now that Charlotte Green has packed it in.

 

I haven't listened to Radio 1 since Annie Nightingale stopped doing the request show on Sunday nights in about 1993. Luckily I taped a few, so sometimes I listen to them - radioshite.

[trigger]

BBC Radio 2 mostly for me although Radio Felixstowe which is a local community station plays some pretty good stuff sometimes, They had a show playing purely music themes the other night which was fun (the presenters are awful on there though) and BBC Suffolk can be good in a late evening too.

[Richard]

You can get whole Smashie and Nicey era shows from the Radio Rewind website if you like that sort of thing. My friend bought a DVD with hundreds of them on it. GR9 4 pretending both you and your car are thirty years younger.

[pompei]

R4 has some gems - like the programme yesterday morning by Andy Kershaw about microcars.

[willswitchengage]

+R4 on 1. Since my car stereo is just a basic tuner with no seek scan I find long journeys are much more fun just by local radio surfing, there's some brilliant music on some of them. Plus it's always funny when you stumble across some arbitrary pirate radio like DERBY RASTA FM that I enjoyed not so long ago

[RoadworkUK]

I was trapped in a car with no DAB t'other day which meant either grumpy silence or frantic dial twiddling. Suddenly, on the A14, a station named Zack FM appeared on the dial. Gripped with intrigue I tuned in immediately..... And it was superb.

 

It's basically a radio station run by and for the USAF based around Lakenheath and Mildenhall, with American and English DJs. The adverts are funny too, being for local British firms but presented with American accents. Their catchphrase is "we play anything"; I got Zappa then Def Leppard then Nina Simone.... Thoroughly recommended.

[michael1703]

The word "EPIC" is currently boiling my piss

 

You cant escape the fucking word

 

Car insurance ad with the slaphead fuck from star wars/star trek (who cares which?) on the radio saying "billy mongbiscuit saved 37p on his car insurance and now he feels epic"

 

epic is when you get down on your hands and knees and push a pea from lands end to john o groats with your nose

 

sick to fuck of hearing it

[trigger]

I know exactly what your saying there!

[Pete-M]

is Epic.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Very popular with knobheads, the word epic. OMG THIS CUP OF TEA IS EPIC! Idiots.

[trigger]

Another over used word is AWESOME.

[retrogeezer]

Another over used word is AWESOME.

 

I'm guilty of using that one, I shall endeavour to correct my misdemeanor forthwith..

[meggersdog]

Had to have my best friend,Meg the dog, put to sleep on Monday morning and I still feel terrible two days later.

Found some mammory tumours early in the summer,the vet said it would be two big operations and because of her age might not get through both.She was thirteen so I kept an eye on the lumps.A couple of weeks ago she had a stroke which she got through but then went off her food.Then this last weekend her belly swelled and she was struggling to breathe.It was heart-breaking and I'm not ashamed to admit I started crying on Sunday and haven't really stopped since.

Suppose I will have to change my user name now.

[vulgalour]

That's very sad news. 13 is a fantastic age for any dog to reach, especially if it's been in the company of a loved one for all those years.

[brickwall]

Only thing that made me weepy was having my Jack Russell put down. When I was walking through the village everyone would ask where my dog was, I had to try real hard not to cry. People said I didn't look the same without the wee pooch totting along beside me. That dog would go everywhere with me.

[meggersdog]

Made worse because I live alone and the house feels so empty.She helped me,in her own way, through some terrible times.When my mum died,when my granny died and helped through my depression.I couldn't watch her go so my last image is of her licking my hand with her, by now, cold tongue before the vet came into the surgery.She is buried in her favourite spot in the garden so will always be here.RIP Meggers.

[nigel bickle]

Mate my heart really bleeds for you.

 

I've always had 2 dogs -and when 'Murphy' died several years back -I cried buckets. I ensured his partner, ''Stella'' watched me bury him (-hopefully for her closure) but she still chases any dog that looks a little like him. We both really miss him.

 

Now she's beginning to ail -& I truly dread the day. She's a 14 yr old (runt) lurcher who has survived 2 major cancer surgeries, but is showing signs of growing them again -and she's too tired to go through the hoop now. She's developing cataracts & is going deaf- but she still acts as mentor/ protector to Amstel, our autistic mutt -an Alsatian/Great Dane X -who just doesnt understand this world , or anything in it. I've no idea how he'll cope.

 

Dogs are great. Marvellous company, non judgemental & ALWAYS pleased to see you. A true firend. But when they eventually go -bejesus, it hurts.

[whitevanman]

OOOFFF /\/\ I was there with my dog 5 years ago, exact same problem, exact same outcome..........I still miss her and I am still not ready to own another dog......I still fill up on occasion when I think about it all....so you have my heart felt sympathy for how your feeling.

[Cavcraft]

Gutted for you chief, we've lost cats and its horrible. Our dog is only two and half and we don't even want to think about the day he dies, he's like another baby to us.

[TimothyClaypole]

Dragging my self home after another day slaving to find a cheery leaflet telling me the fat bloke across the road (too fat to work I think), plus the assorted pensioners can get themselves some stamps at last year's prices for Christmas.

 

That'll be a big fat fxxx all for me the tax payer then.

 

 

I cheered myself opening a letter from the council asking me for £375.00 in the next 4 days.