Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[Cookietruck]

i like to be early bro

[devlin]

I'll preempt TT : Drop and give us 20.

[doomridesout]

First world problem a day early- got a great trade and an opportunity to get a sweet new bike I've coveted forever, but it required much parts swapping, which is taking fucking FOREVER. Gotta build some new wheels, get a new parts, sell older stuff (if you feel like helping a brother out make an offer on my stuff in classifieds). I now have two non-functional road bikes instead of one that's ready to ride, and my next day off I might have to choose between riding and working on my bikes. Pretty good problem, but goddamn I want to get back to riding the road!

Edit: I did yoga for once- can that count?

[Too Tall]

Lissen you YOU know who you are. Hold your water, it ain't thursday and I've got my grumps allll lined up.

[maunahaole]

My grump: anything involving the events coming out of Vatican City for the past few weeks.

[-HvA-]

Fucking asshole neighbors are watching a movie at full blast. Again. At 1:30am. Getting tired of writing complaint emails to the rental company.

[130_R]

If a company is going to invest in million dollar machines built in Sweden but the maintenance department does not have or feel the need to purchase any metric tape measures... then yes my position is going to be that your company is run by morons.

[WayneJ]

If a company is going to invest in million dollar machines built in Sweden but the maintenance department does not have or feel the need to purchase any metric tape measures... then yes my position is going to be that your company is run by morons.

Metric adjustable wrenches are popular with maintenance departments

[robin3mj]

People who mistake a crowd for an audience. Shut up.

[znfdl]

The Patriots let Welker go to the Broncos, I mean WTF.

[David Tollefson]

Co-workers who refuse to learn English.

Not only is the guy worthless as an employee (lazy, constantly milking jobs for every hour her can get), but with some 30 years in the US, he still can't construct an English sentence. And I get to check his work. Jobs that should take 30 minutes last WEEKS! I check it, send it back with corrections, and it comes back "Done!" and nothing's been done. Corrections aren't made.

But today we have the ultrasound where we find out if the coming baby is a boy or a girl (or, I suppose, a monkey, or pony -- I'm holding out for the pony). And I'm taking tomorrow off to take my daughter to school and then go for a long ride. I just have to keep these in mind, and nothing will bother me today.

[devlin]

I started work at a big engineering company in Australia 6 months ago with the promise that there will be more work than I could poke stick at for the foreseeable future. I've now been sat at my desk for the last 5 months staring out the window as that work disappeared. All of a sudden I have 20 odd drawings to get out and only a day and a half to do them. Really? I'm lucky to have the job in the current climate but fuck me it's slowly sending me bonkers and my only saving grace is my bike. Maybe a new 'zetti of 'fly will soothe the angst.

[monadnocky]

The Patriots let Welker go to the Broncos, I mean WTF.

For Danny Amendola and his 10,000 piece collarbone.

F me.

[lukasz]

For the last 3 days I've been riding into a headwind no matter what direction I'm going in. WTF. At least I didn't get soaked today.

[aaronv]

Grump. Potable tap water is amazing. There is so much of it in most US locales that you can water your lawn with it. Yet we have this

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Now with less plastic, you are doing your part.

[Dallas Tex]

Anything, and I mean ANYTHING thats not metric. Hand me the 88/94" wrench, too small? Get me the 61/79".

Seriously, this is the stupidest thing in the world. And having to keep two very similar but completely different sets of tools.

After his success in N. Korea, and later the Vatican, I'd like to see Dennis Rodman do something about this.

[quickag]

When I lived in the Azores I had a town that I rode through almost daily. THey had a fisherman that would trade me live lobsters for busted cellphones. I really love this place.

This is what they woke up to this morning and there's nothing I can do to help.

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[Saab2000]

For the last 3 days I've been riding into a headwind no matter what direction I'm going in. WTF. At least I didn't get soaked today.

I would give anything to ride into a headwind at this very moment. Instead I'm stuck in shitty hotel and not flying with this woman.
At least you're riding.

[robin3mj]

I'm sure some people here can top this, but in the last 7 nights I have lain my head in: Boeing 737, London, London, London (different hotel), Chicago, Phoenix, Chicago.
I don't know which way is up anymore.

[xjoex]

Google... I am mad at Google and their shitty social media effort Google Plus. It's not that I mind Google plus. I mind that in an effort to force you on to their shitty social media platform they are shutting down perfectly good services. Their homepage/portal iGoogle is going away, then Google Reader is going away, now when I log in to picassa, which I fucking pay for, they forward me to google plus.

grump.

-Joe