Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626314 times)

T42 · « **Reply #6375 on:** 27 May, 2015, 03:36:11 pm »

Telefuckingmarketers! Die!

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #6376 on:** 27 May, 2015, 04:37:39 pm »

Argos at the Leamington retail park: You knew there was a problem with your customer payment terminals, as you told me as much. My card was declined and I was more or less the only punter in the shop this morning, so it's likely you knew I was having difficulties, but did nothing. Had you taken the trouble to put a notice on the terminals informing me of the issue I wouldn't have wasted my time calling the bank from your car park. And Ian, you're the manager, so manage the situation rather than act with an air of utter disdain. Twat.

hellymedic · « **Reply #6377 on:** 27 May, 2015, 05:57:53 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 27 May, 2015, 03:36:11 pm

Telefuckingmarketers! Die!

+1

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #6378 on:** 27 May, 2015, 06:06:31 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2015, 07:53:33 pm

Some oik-scrote nicked my rear light while I was in Aldi this morning. Git! Just vandalism really, as they just pulled off the cover battery unit bit.
My fault I spose. I'm getting lax and don't bother with London standard security in Brum.

Basil, if that's your Phaart light on the Dawes, I have one without a mount, so you're welcome to it.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6379 on:** 27 May, 2015, 07:01:03 pm »

Do my ears need steam-cleaning or did television's Tomasz Schafernaker really just describe today's weather as "amazeballs"

Basil · « **Reply #6380 on:** 27 May, 2015, 07:05:17 pm »

Quote from: A Warwickshire Lad on 27 May, 2015, 06:06:31 pm

Quote from: Basil on 25 May, 2015, 07:53:33 pm
Some oik-scrote nicked my rear light while I was in Aldi this morning. Git! Just vandalism really, as they just pulled off the cover battery unit bit.
My fault I spose. I'm getting lax and don't bother with London standard security in Brum.
Basil, if that's your Phaart light on the Dawes, I have one without a mount, so you're welcome to it.

Thanks AWL. See response to your pm.

You is an good egg.

Ruthie · « **Reply #6381 on:** 27 May, 2015, 09:43:26 pm »

I think there might be a leak under my bath $:-\$

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #6382 on:** 27 May, 2015, 10:06:01 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 27 May, 2015, 07:01:03 pm

Do my ears need steam-cleaning or did television's Tomasz Schafernaker really just describe today's weather as "amazeballs"

If he did, he's a fuckwit, cos it's been cold and rainy.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6383 on:** 28 May, 2015, 12:12:51 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 May, 2015, 10:06:01 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 27 May, 2015, 07:01:03 pm
Do my ears need steam-cleaning or did television's Tomasz Schafernaker really just describe today's weather as "amazeballs"
If he did, he's a fuckwit, cos it's been cold and rainy.

Serves you right for living in narwhal territory

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #6384 on:** 28 May, 2015, 12:25:21 pm »

I think one just swam past the window.

Basil · « **Reply #6385 on:** 28 May, 2015, 12:57:11 pm »

Me stroling through the ped area under Five Ways.
Oik on BSO from behind, "What where you're ******* going"
Me: I was watching where I was going. I wasn't watching where you were going - that's your job"
Oik: "******* ****!"
Me. "OK"

L CC · « **Reply #6386 on:** 31 May, 2015, 10:29:54 am »

I planned to ride on Saturday, but needed stuff I'd left chez Mr Smith. So I entered a ride for today and now I can't ride because my back is fecking agony.
I want my youth back. Or maybe just my youthful back back would do.
Pah.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #6387 on:** 31 May, 2015, 10:40:28 pm »

It seems that King Dick, manufacturers of sniggerworthy tools since Adam was a boy, based in Birmingham and having a union flag on the mast head of their web site, refer to this:

as a wrench.

Pingu · « **Reply #6388 on:** 31 May, 2015, 11:56:20 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 24 May, 2015, 08:59:09 pm

...Interestingly, that's the third time in my life that I've been pooed on by a bird. It's always hit my right arm.

If you were in the southern hemisphere it would've been your left arm.

Canardly · « **Reply #6389 on:** 01 June, 2015, 12:00:40 am »

Had my first spam phone call on my mobile damn it.

Canardly · « **Reply #6390 on:** 01 June, 2015, 12:07:32 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 May, 2015, 10:40:28 pm

It seems that King Dick, manufacturers of sniggerworthy tools since Adam was a boy, based in Birmingham and having a union flag on the mast head of their web site, refer to this:

as a wrench.

That is Desperanto isn't it?

Paul · « **Reply #6391 on:** 01 June, 2015, 12:21:55 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 May, 2015, 10:40:28 pm

It seems that King Dick, manufacturers of sniggerworthy tools since Adam was a boy, based in Birmingham and having a union flag on the mast head of their web site, refer to this:

as a wrench.

In which case it's time to plenish up the vittles in the underground shelter, dust off the 12 gauge and assess the wimmin-folk for breeding, cos surface-dwellin is over for the foreseeable!

Andrij · « **Reply #6392 on:** 01 June, 2015, 08:25:19 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 May, 2015, 10:40:28 pm

It seems that King Dick, manufacturers of sniggerworthy tools since Adam was a boy, based in Birmingham and having a union flag on the mast head of their web site, refer to this:

as a wrench.

And the problem is?

[checks passport against current country of residence]

IS OUTRAGE!

T42 · « **Reply #6393 on:** 01 June, 2015, 09:42:31 am »

Got to spend the morning ferreting out the Inlaw Paw's bank & UK pension statements so that I can do his tax return.

Shit, I have to do mine as well.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6394 on:** 01 June, 2015, 09:57:02 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 May, 2015, 10:40:28 pm

It seems that King Dick, manufacturers of sniggerworthy tools since Adam was a boy, based in Birmingham and having a union flag on the mast head of their web site, refer to this:

as a wrench.

I'd always assumed they were USAnian. Perhaps I knew they made wrenches, not spanners. I certainly didn't know they were based in Birmingham (not the one where they love the governor, I presume?)

Bledlow · « **Reply #6395 on:** 01 June, 2015, 10:01:20 am »

"Proudly made in Birmingham since 1856 ..."

http://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6396 on:** 01 June, 2015, 10:12:40 am »

I expect that spanner is a far more modern word than wrench. That wr- prefix is common to many words connected with twisting; wrist, write, wring.

clarion · « **Reply #6397 on:** 01 June, 2015, 01:25:33 pm »

I think it's an intimation of things to come. Most of the country is planning to join Scotland to go for Independence. But nobody wanted Birmingham, so it was annexed by Alabama in an administrative errol.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6398 on:** 01 June, 2015, 02:25:04 pm »

An administrative Errol Flynn or Errol Brown?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6399 on:** 01 June, 2015, 02:57:34 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 June, 2015, 02:25:04 pm

An administrative Errol Flynn or Errol Brown?

While looking for that I discovered the existence of an Errol de Ponce on LinkedIn.