The grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

All I'd be scoffing is sprouts and onions.

Meh. It'd be nothing but pies and black puddings for me then.

[Father Ted]

Meh. It'd be nothing but pies and black puddings for me then.

My staple diet that. Butter pies, Black puddin, mushy peas and chips. Lovely. Fcuk the impending coronary.

[brammy777]

If i could only eat local produce, id be stuck with eggs and expensive beef.Not a problem, really.

[Mr Lobster]

Butter pies

OM NOM NOM NOMWhen I worked in Preston many moons ago, the cafe in the garage used to do bloody lovely butter pies.

[Father Ted]

People Sarf of Wigan will be wondering WTF? are butter pies all about.Lovely - watching North End getting twhatted at home eating a butter pie on the terrace.

[Richard]

People Sarf of Wigan will be wondering WTF? are butter pies all about.

I'm a long way North of Wigan and I'm wondering.

[brammy777]

I google'd it and now Im pretty hungry for said butter pie.

[Guest]

People Sarf of Wigan will be wondering WTF? are butter pies all about.

? ?? ???I was born in Huddersfield and have lived the majority of my life in Cheshire. I used to work at Wish FM and I have no pissing idea what butter pies are.Please enlighten.

[Mike D]

So now we're told that eating Christmas puds is a crime against the environment as the ingredients come from far off exotic lands.OK, well stop bringing shiploads of Hyundais over and I'll forego my Crimble pud - fair swap, right.Also does anyone think that trailers ought to be subject to some kind of MOT or registration? Like most of you I'm sure, I'd look after one if I had one but I had rather a close call today because of some twat in a van (they were heading down a street where there's a pikey site admittedly...) with no working lights or indicators on his trailer and the load was blocking the van lights.

There isn't an MOT as such but VOSA can pull you over and roger you if it isn't roadworthy. My mate was towing a grey fergie tractor behind his vectra and got pulled cos it looked overweight. It wasn't, but they gave the trailer a right going over and put a prohibition notice on i cos the brakes were shot!

[Father Ted]

People Sarf of Wigan will be wondering WTF? are butter pies all about.

? ?? ???

 

I was born in Huddersfield and have lived the majority of my life in Cheshire. I used to work at Wish FM and I have no pissing idea what butter pies are.

 

Please enlighten.

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[STUNO]

MMMMMM....My kind of food. I had never heard of them, but I like the idea.

[whitevanman]

Butter Pies are to die for................my Local Morrisons gets them in for me most weeks and I'm well North of Wigan as well...........................Mind you I spend a fair bit of time in Wigan most years

[Gompo]

Almost. Started bulk importing (5 a fortnight) Trabs shortly after.Working in Hungary & W Germany- just a spontaneous trip after work. Strada 130tc,from memory.

Off topic but my Mum wants to know if you speak any foreign languages?It does seem you've lived a life full of cars and the like, ever thought about writing a book?

[gearoil]

47 in a 40.3 points & £60... Its a fair cop etc, just pissed off its taken 12 years of driving to rack up any points.Also, what is the range of those bloody guns, they got me from a fair distance. Arse.

[Timewaster]

Butter Pies are to die for.........

Grrr. As previously stated:"Oh this wallpaper/pie/jumper is to die for"WRONG! Your freedom, your family and possibly your country are to die for.The other things are for covering cracks in the plaster/stuffing your face/allowing you to turn the heating down.

[Rusty Pelican]

Someone post me some butter pies , sound scrummy

[whitevanman]

Butter Pies are to die for.........

Grrr. As previously stated:"Oh this wallpaper/pie/jumper is to die for"WRONG! Your freedom, your family and possibly your country are to die for.The other things are for covering cracks in the plaster/stuffing your face/allowing you to turn the heating down.

OHHH !!!! OK now take deep breaths and relax............

[whitevanman]

Someone post me some butter pies , sound scrummy

ask at your local Morrisons bakery counter...they should be able to get you them

[Tayne]

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[Richard]

I believe the range of the guns can be up to 900m.

[nigel bickle]

Gompo-your Mum reads this? Marvellous.I'm old, mate- been on this planet since Arthur burnt his cakes.In that time I've been lucky enough to work behind the Iron Curtain, in a few minor dubious dictatorships, & around a chunk of the ''civilised'' world.I tend to jump at 'opportunities' - usually spontaneously, and it does me right most of the time. Not always thoughLanguage? I tend to learn when I get there - easier from the locals. Sign language & laughter tends to work -initially. Most are rusty now-but who knows whats around the corner.

[Cheggers]

"Most are rusty now-but who knows whats around the corner"It's true...life is just like car ownership

[Guest]

Have to say I find this an annual irritation - the last day at work before they close for Christmas.

 

I would say most workplaces who close for Christmas (especially offices) will have a bit of a thing where the managers will come around at some point on the last day and say everyone can leave early. I don't have a problem with that, it's a bit of a gesture and doesn't really leave them out of pocket as most people don't get a lot done on the last day anyway. They might as well go.

 

My problem is the way that my work does it - the managers will come around at a random time (usually far too early) and say that you're all going home. However, the big thing is that you have to take it out of your own time, either annual leave or work your flexitime. Bit tight. But not only that, it's not just a case of you can go home if you want to - you have to go.

 

And because everyone else inexplicably gets here for 7am and I turn up at a more reasonable hour (because I don't go to bed straight after my tea like everyone else must do), it means I've ended up coming in for such little time that I'll either end up around five hours down on my flexitime and need to come in early for weeks to balance it out, or have to use annual leave allowance to "pay" for it. I would rather just stay here and work, I would happily do that, but I can't - I've got to mess about using my own time to take an afternoon off that I don't even want to take! It's a complete waste of time, literally - if I'm taking some time off I want to do something with it. What the hell am I going to do on the afternoon of Christmas Eve? It's a ballache and it does my head in.

[peter9000uk]

I hear where you are coming from Hirst and sympathise. When I had a job i used to work for a company that closed between Christmas & New Year, but you were expected to use some of your annual holiday to cover that period. Always did get my goat!

[RedSparrow]

Why can't I reverse park properly when there is a pretty lady in the vicinity?Is Tescos a supermarket aimed specifically at educationally subnormal customers? It certainly seems that way. They were all in there today buying shitloads of stuff they don't need for Christmas, most of which will end up in landfill. I hate this time of year when the shops get stupidly busy with people spunking their Giros on shit they don't need.

[Richard]

Is Tescos a supermarket aimed specifically at educationally subnormal customers?

Yes.

[Milford Cubicle]

I have just been there, proving the above.

[myglaren]

Have to say I find this an annual irritation - the last day at work before they close for Christmas. snip...

 

What the hell am I going to do on the afternoon of Christmas Eve? It's a ballache and it does my head in.

Where I work it is traditional to stand around and do absolutely bugger all for the last two days. On the last day management concede to let everyone go early, usually around 2 pm. - but they always make everyone wait around with no clear indication of when exactly we can leave.

 

I have taken the month off and avoid all that nonsense. They weren't happy

 

Re that last bit, I always do my christmas shopping, such as it is, on the afternoon of christmas eve, when all the sensible ones have finished and gone home. Often just me and the staff in the shops

[Cavcraft]

Ah yes, Christmas. The time of the office/workplace piss up. And what does the annual event bring?Pissed up wankers who can't hold their ale. I swear in every office/workplace piss-up there is always one gobshite who's probably the junior/dogsbody/most picked on.This dickhead will be the one who looks up to the premier league gobshites at work and wished he could be like them.So he has one pint and a shot and all of a sudden he's Mohammed Fucking Ali and starts gobbing off, throwing his weight round and knocking into people looking for a fight, believing his fellow workers will a) think he's the coolest kid around and come and help him when he gets his inevitable twatting before the end of the night.I absolutely fucking detest amateur drinkers, there should be a law that these wankers who only go out twice a year (Christmas and New Year) should be forced to drink in pubs that us regular drinkers don't use. Maybe some sort of nursery type pub to gradually introduce them to ale until they can drink seven or eight pints at least and not want to fight the world?

[55bloke]

I'm probably going to get abused for this, but I've never understood why anyone would want to drink 7 or 8 pints of ANYTHING at one sitting!! Put it all in one container at the start of an evening and think about why the hell you'd want to down all that in the next few hours!! There's nothing on earth I enjoy enough to want to consume in that sort of quantity!!