Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[Pete.]

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[hellkat]

[AldridgePrior]

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Nowhere near.


Unfortunately, matters have taken a rather bad turn with the Russian, and I am incredibly angry this morning. So luckily your suggestion has made me laugh for five minutes. Well done.

A telethon, perhaps...
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[hellkat]

So anyway, my gears are more ground than they have been for a long fucking time now. I am actually closer to real anger than I have been for a long fucking time.

The Russian, thinking she is being helpful, has just suggested how I might help myself lose some weight. She has tried to play the "I am only concerned for your health and you know how much I love you" card.

Followed up by sending me a link to one of those gastric bypass surgeons and some sort of NHS weightloss clinic things.

I was extremely polite in my response.
You know that thing that English people do when they are trying to express to ignorant foreigners that what has just happened is totally Not Cricket.
I think she got the message that I am unbelievably angry with her.

I swear a lot, as you all know, whether happy or not, I use swear words like other people use salt on their chips.

But when I don't swear is when you have to be very fucking careful with me. If I swear and curse, I'm getting it out of my system, but if I'm frosty and precise, thennnnnn ... you are in Big Trouble with a capital J for Jen.

She's so busy bossing that rich new husband of hers around now (a very charming but surprisingly meek man, who I actually like quite a lot) ... and queening it about in Cyprus with assorted Russian idiot-wives influencing her, that she's forgotten who she is dealing with.

I know I have a weight problem, I've had one as long as I can remember, since my early teens. And it's not getting any better the older I get, but only I can deal with it when I'm good and ready. I do worry quite a lot about it myself, and I dread getting old and frail and still carrying this weight, but nobody can do anything about it except me.

In her absence I've started to deal with it on several occasions, but as we all know with any sort of addiction: booze, food, fags, drugs, you can only do anything about it when you're in the right frame of mind, and having someone telling you what they think you should do is not going to put me in the right frame of mind, in fact it often drives you in the other direction.

I could rant a long time about my relationship with her and how we've come to this ... but I shan't, because its actually boring and I do actually value her friendship above many others, so this as close to a bitch fest as I would ever get.

I'm above that.

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[hellkat]

Ommmmmmm ... I've calmed down now.
Fucking cheeky mare.

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[Tracey Suntan-King]

Try to hold the thought that she was doing it for (what she thought were) good reasons (because she loves you) and ignore the fact that it was presumptions, arrogant, insensitive and unecessary.

Wouldn't you rather have a cheeky mare for a friend than somebody who never puts a foot wrong? Borrrrrrinnnnng
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[ThatDippyTwat]

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[Howling Terror]

My record turntable has gone smelly, I did think that DanMan (the dog) had dropped one but he hadn't. I opened it up and can't find anything untoward.

I'll send it off to be repaired but as I was putting the screws back in I dropped it and fvcked the tonearm. Oh how I giggled and oh how I have been an absolute delight to be around for the past few hours.
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[hellkat]

The cat just spewed up half a mouse onto the bathroom floor.
So that was nice.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Skudd]

Getting crap money from the insurance just because my bike had done 70,000 miles instead of wankers who do under 30,000 in 12 years on a bike.
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[King29]

Traveled to buy a bike today, bad move. Caught the train from Stafford to London Euston then the underground to Mile End. Bloke was meant to meet me at Mile End, he never showed, rang him and no reply, after 10 minutes I got a text telling me to catch a cab to an address as he wasn't feeling well.

Caught cab, clapped eyes on bike, heart sank, what a shed. Small driveway covered in oil stains, bike looking sorry for itself. Knocked on door, bloke answered, he had a big smile and kept referring to me as 'my friend'.

He kept asking me 'You have money my friend, you have money'. He started the bike, started on 2 cylinders which would have been great if it was a twin. 10 seconds later it's running on 3 and an intermittent 4 dropping back to 3 sporadically. Exhaust is rattly, blue smoke out of exhaust which indicates burning oil.

Tell him to forget it, at which point he becomes cross, "You promise buy bike". I walked, cafe down the road that did a mean bacon roll and tea for £2.85. Cab back to mile end station, tube back to Euston and train back to Stafford.

Paddy is psychic.

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[P.]

[Freddyfruitba...]

Found myself stuck at Sheffield Station for an hour last night, and was happy to find quite a decent-looking pub just next door to kill the time (The Sheffield Tap):

https://www.sheffieldtap.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Sheffield-Tap-02.jpg

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[Freddyfruitba...]

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park lemmings

I am a magnet for them when I am running, if there is any possible way that some random person can unexpectedly block my progress it will happen. From a dozen oldies with those silly walking poles rounding a corner walking 4 abreast, to the cyclist looking at his phone, who for no reason suddenly swerves right, and the stops dead, through to the people with dogs on wander leads who see me coming, and decide the best thing they can do is pay out another 4 meters of dog lead.