The grumpy thread

[TimothyClaypole]

New bonus scheme at work.

 

Old one was basically a paltry tenner a week for turning up and not being late or sick (although it was deducted if you took a paid holiday...)

 

Now it's going to be £12 a week but paid monthly - tax molesting for that no doubt. 

 

But you lose 25% for 1 day sick, 50% for 2 days etc.  Make a mistake and the same, late the same etc.

 

I'll be working harder I'm sure for this generous increase... I've half mind to clock in 1 minute late for a week and tell them to shove it.

[chaseracer]

I've completely given up on EvilBay (and PayNOW) because truly they are the spawn of  . Consequently, I have an attic full of car mags and brochures going back to the 60s. 

 

Perhaps I should open a real shop... 

 

<_>

[Angrydicky]

What have you got in the way of Austin/BMC/BL/AR brochures? I have a fairly impressive collection already, but there may be stuff I haven't got...in particular I'm looking for Ambassador and early Maestro brochures.

[trigger]

I've been thinking of selling all my car magazines and moving on to collecting more brochures instead as I'm starting to find them more interesting.

[John F]

I *think* I have a £150 protected excess but i need to double check, I'll say I done it to protect her insurance, it's just frustrating as it's my nice car which I haven't had that long, mind you she did the same thing in the Alto a few months back too and that was tiny.

 

I'd tell her to get her own bloody car and stop ruining mine.

[M'coli]

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

[Bobthebeard]

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

That's politics. They will leave it there until just after the next election and then blame Labour for closing car parks, even though it clearly has 'Conservative Party' written on it.

Apologies for any inconvenience.*

[Lankytim]

I thought I'd sold the AX to a neighbour last week. Shook on a price, which is quite a bit less than it owes me. "I'll collect and pay on Thursday". You can guess the rest. I text him asking if he still wanted it and he replied "Money Saturday"..... Again, he's no show, so I text him again asking when he's coming round "Stuck at work". I get the feeling he doesn't want this car after all.

 

To add piss to shit the guy who didn't show up last weekend text today asking if he could come round to view, to which I didn't reply, as he's wasted enough of my time already.

 

What is it with this car? It's a nice motor and will plod on for years if looked after. Don't people know quality when they see it?

[Lord Sterling]

Don't people know quality when they see it?

Short answer? No. Sadly there are lots of timewasters and dreamers. People these days seem rather incapable of thinking about others.

[Bobthebeard]

Short answer? No. Sadly there are lots of timewasters and dreamers. People these days seem rather incapable of thinking about others.

In short, people are usually awful. Unless known to be otherwise... Or on here obviously..

[Lankytim]

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

[Bobthebeard]

I think it's just in such a low category status and price wise it's only capable of attracting the feckless and plain stupid. I may just end up stashing it somewhere and occasionally sitting in it or something. Or just crush it.

This will be no help whatsoever, but just reminded me that I once bought a Renault 4 van when I was 17. The engine was seized solid but I had dreams of fixing it.

I just sat in it a lot. Never repaired it as I was 17 with no tools, no idea and no driving licence.

Happy days.*

Can't remember what happened to it.

[phil_lihp]

It does seem to be open season for muppets on eBay lately, I've been using it since 2001 and it's only in the last couple of years they've really come out of the woodwork.  Latest one being a fool who bought two old camera lenses from me in seperate auctions and ignored the UK only postage.  Being something of a fool myself, I charged him extra and sent it to France as requested.  One non-existant address, one permanently closed address, 20+ emails back and forth and a chat with the courier over a month later the parcel remains with the couriers and I've given up.  I've told him to call them and deal with it himself.  

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Manchester car park, 2 days after the Tory party conference: we're so obviously not in it together...

 

[pic]

Come the revolution Manchester Central NCP car park will be repurposed as the People's Vegetable Market and it will be decorated with the heads of any Bourgeoisie who could afford to park in it. 

[wuvvum]

Wat, can't you set your eBay settings to block bidders who have a registered address outside of the UK?  I always do that when I sell cars now (unless I've got something particularly unusual that I think might interest overseas buyers) - selling stuff overseas is more trouble than it's worth.

[wuvvum]

Another thing - why is the past participle of the verb "to text" "text" and not "texted"?  I know that "to text" is a made-up verb and therefore the past tense can be whatever the fuck it wants, but it still makes no sense to me.

 

Even more annoying is the creeping replacement (mainly among young people, but sadly I've heard some of my generation doing it too) of "to say" with "to be like".  It's a moronic Americanism which makes no grammatical sense whatsoever and I have no idea why it's become so widely used.

 

I'm tired.  I'm going to bed.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I keep hearing (on the internet, I don't speak to people in real life) Americans using the phrase 'on accident' instead of 'by accident'. "I put my foot through the screen door on accident". I guess as the opposite of 'on purpose' it makes sense but it always sounds dumb and doesn't flow well. 

 

On the whole I don't mind Americanisms when they creep into British English. It's hard to be upset about a handful of words originating from the US when they're using more than half a million which our ancestors made up. 

[purplebargeken]

Felling down, moody and just not my usual self. Nagging feeling it is car related but not sure why. Meh!

[Cavcraft]

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

[chaseracer]

And those who still insist on saying 'needs restore' etc.

Unless they're Scottish, where this construction appears to be the accepted dialectic norm...

[Pillock]

Isn't that just dialect differences?

Like South Yorkshire folk saying "while five o'clock" instead of "until 5 o'clock". Always confuses me.

[saucedoctor]

Ballymena yins. "I'm starved." Now, most English-speaking natives would take that to mean that the stating person was hungry. No. In Ballymena, "I'm starved" means "I am cold"

 

Sheep-shagging weirdos.

 

We have some other people here who don't even speak English. My dear friend, who owns my local breakers' yard, is one such person. While I was up there a couple of years ago, he was warning me that the road ahead may be hazardous, "Mine yon rid Andy bai she's wile guttery. Aff the pipe, yer bat'll be wide"

 

[Spiny Norman]

Scots calling fizzy pop 'juice'. Extremely confusing. 

 

What's REALLY confusing is when Weegies call all varieties of fizzy pop 'ginger'.

[M'coli]

Except for when it's called "scoosh"!

[M'coli]

Aye, true, but also:  if you shook up a schoolmate's can of ginger when they wurnae lookin', it would scoosh all over the guy opposite them when they opened it!

[Cavcraft]

I though Scoo(i)sh was how Glaswegians described what nationality they were. 

[TimothyClaypole]

The washing powder advert where the yoof is messing with the exhaust on a Punto I think - "I'm changing the exhaust out"...

[Junkman]

£1.75 (one Pound and seventy-five Pence) for a small styrofoam cup filled with some lukewarm feline diarrhea passed off as coffee at the Staffordshire County Fair today. I'm telling you, this Staffordshire is already way too far south for my taste.

[RichardMoss]

Impossible task of the day - describe steel wool to a bloke from Bangladesh who has English as a second language. Still, his grasp of my language was better than my grasp of his

[Albert Ross]

Something minor that's been boiling my piss for a few years..... It's a marketing thing, designed to save time (and therefore money) but.... TV or radio advert goes like this. "Buy this revolting green and orange 3 piece lounge suite for just 9-9-5"  No mention of the word "Pounds",  It's devaluing the currency. Surely it would be better to actually say "Nine hundred and ninety five pounds" to make certain the price was clearly communicated? Ah well.