Negative Creep Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 The internet is actually working again. So I've used this time to send my cv to another 4 companies for them to ignoreWhen I lost my job in late 2008 I applied to 100 companies in the UK and abroad. I got 1 interview (which was for lip service as they didn't have to shell out of going through a recruitment agency), and rather shockingly, 1 single reply. Out of one hundred companies I applied for, I heard back from one! I thought 'fuck this' and got a job as a pizza delivery driver, I was told 'keep my chin up', but those odds are fucking impossible. That is just scary. You look at all the useless wastes of space you find in most shops and companies and wonder how they ever got there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Another forgotten source of autoshite... what I wouldn't give to be driving a brand new Constructor 8 nowadays... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'm renting a unit on a farm for the business. Went up there with Lobsta_Jnr earlier. Next to our unit is a field with cows in. He took one look at the cows, eyes turned to saucers, the cows all looked at him and then he cried. He's never seen a cow before. Was quite an amusing / cute moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Yeah but what you failed to tell us is that Lobsta_Jnr is 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Yeah but what you failed to tell us is that Lobsta_Jnr is 21. That reminded me, I watched this the other day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQNVd3anis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompo Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I spent last weekend with my brother, and just my brother for the most part, for the first time in 10 years or so. Was great and hope I can do it again soon. I see him 4-5 times a year but every time has either been with his girlfriend or/and my Dad in tow. Unfortunately not been out in my car properly for over two weekends - will hopefully get a run out on Friday to what I hope is my last funeral for a while.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Going food shopping in the Westminster, just because I can. Shame a new Tesco is killing off trade for the co-op, but at least the queues in the latter are now entirely non-existant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Yeah but what you failed to tell us is that Lobsta_Jnr is 21. That reminded me, I watched this the other day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQNVd3anisSuperb! Haven't looked at this for ages.I have a CDROM somewhere with all their shows on it, if i find it i can copy it for people as the beeb never put any of their stuff on dvd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Saw another Maestro coming the other way when we were out in the beige one earlier...lots of light flashing and waving followed! The guy in the other one looked bemused but did grin a bit. So if you are the owner of E169 AAR, a metallic blue Maestro City, you know who the nutcase was earlier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Yeah but what you failed to tell us is that Lobsta_Jnr is 21. That reminded me, I watched this the other day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQNVd3anisSuperb! Haven't looked at this for ages.I have a CDROM somewhere with all their shows on it, if i find it i can copy it for people as the beeb never put any of their stuff on dvd.You can watch all FoF and TMWRNJ shows through Stewart Lee's site. It's amazing what they got away with in TM's timeslot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Took the car in for an MOT but was two months early. Got them to check out a few bits and pieces including seeing why the turbo has started coming in at 3200 revs instead of 1200, making entries onto roundabouts a bit fraught to say the least. They couldn't find a fault but did log a few stored fault codes and were going to get the resident wizard to look at it when he returns from holiday. Took it away, called in at work (off sick at the moment but work is on the same road as the garage). When I left the car roared off like a - roary thing - it has never gone so well since I bought it and Mr. Turbo is performing faultlessly. And here was I expecting to replace the MAF, turbo actuator, EGR and God knows what else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 A lot of FCRs record the fault and wipe them out again, at least until the problem occurs again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Myglaren, is the actuator working properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Well, that was what they were supposed to be looking at. I presumed a leak in one of the vacuum lines, the way the fault appeared and then continued. They checked all the lines and found them OK (they look reasonably new) and checked the connections to the MAF, boost pressure sensor etc but couldn't find any faults so ran a diagnostic on it, couldn't say which machine but I do know that anything other than a Lexia has a serious struggle to make much sense of anything Citroen. All that stuff was checked out last year too when I had a dud injector that took some tracing. If if behaves itself I'm going to the CX/M rally in Little Horwood in two weeks so will get it Lexificated then. (Anyone from here going?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Bernard making to outer Hebrides and back. (Will do pics at some point). Started smoking when on the island but did the brave thing and ignored it. Looks like a hole in the brake servo. But the van did the business. Was very comfy to sleep in. The Outer Hebrides was amazing. Cant recommend it enough. Mainly because no one is there! Perfect sandy beaches all to yourself. In Jamaica they would charge a small fortune for them. And also just found out that I am definitely moving to Aus next year. Got visa through so all systems go.. exciting times ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Glad it went well The Moog - thanks for the picture message of Bernard on holiday! Get any more pics? Good news about Oz as well. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I can't get youtube at the moment for some strange reason, but following a post about cows, I wonder if it was the chap in the twin seater aeroplane who knocked over a cow. Searching air crash and cow might bring it up. Always makes me giggle - apparently the cow got nothing more than a bit dizzy and pissed off. here it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Just found this car safety feature in a 1972 issue of Autocar, I can't see why it never caught on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 NSFW, but ohhh so catchy - this has definately given me a happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 NSFW, but ohhh so catchy - this has definately given me a happy! That's magnificent, and indeed very catchy!I shall be sweary-humming that for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashmicro Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Got Iron Maiden's new album, The Final Frontier today. Back to their bone-crunching heavy metal best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Autoshite. It's really picked up a gear recently and everytime you log on there's another ace thread to read. Road trips, class cars and a barrel of laughs. Other forums could learn a great deal from this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Autoshite. It's really picked up a gear recently and everytime you log on there's another ace thread to read. Road trips, class cars and a barrel of laughs. Other forums could learn a great deal from this place. Agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Amen! The bestest place on the web! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Well, it got a bit of dirt in the carb recently, but thankfully that seems to have cleared! Thought it was about time I contributed something proper to the site. H van trip part two is in progress... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexg Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 At last, some compensation for that Ebay scam I had KINDLY OBLIGE SCAMMED VICTIM/521 BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $400,000.00 USDONLY. IN OUR RESEARCH YOU NAME WAS AMONG THE FIRST 60 LIST OF SCAM VICTIM. This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the UnitedNations to The IMF (International Monetary Fund) West Africa RegionalPayment Office to pay 521 scam victims $400,000 USD (four HundredThousand Dollars only) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victimsto be paid this amount,get back to me as soon as possible for theimmediate payments of your $400,000.00 USD compensations funds.On thisfaithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last U.N.meetings held at Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, it was alarmed somuch by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by variousindividual to scam artist operating in syndicates all over the worldtoday. In other to compensate these victims, the U.N Body is now paying 521victims ofthis operators $400,000 USD each in accordance with theU.N.recommendations. Due to the corrupt and in-efficient Banking Systems in Federal Republic ofNigeria, the payments are to be paid by UN officials sitting at IMF(International Monetary Fund) West Africa Regional Payment Office ascorresponding payment centre under funding assistance by United Nationbody. According to the number of applicants at hand, 284 Beneficiaries has beenpaid, alf of the victims are from the United States, and we still havemore 237 left to be paid the compensations of $400,000 USD each. Yourparticulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as oneof their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not tocommunicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so everas the U.S. Secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep itsecret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not beenContacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possibleconsideration. You can receive your compensations payments via.. ONLINE BANK TRANSFER Indicate your option and send your full Name and telephone number/yourcorrect mailing address where you want us to send the compensation to.Contact me for more details via email: scamvictimcompensation2@gmail.com I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. Yours faithfully,Dr kelly OmorogieUnited Nation RepresentativePhone:+234-7057-378-297 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Got Iron Maiden's new album, The Final Frontier today. Back to their bone-crunching heavy metal best! I've made a pledge that as soon as I find employment I'm buying this. Only thing that slightly worries me is the song lengths - A Matter of Life and Death wasn't a bad album but didn't half drag on in places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 NSFW, but ohhh so catchy - this has definately given me a happy! That's magnificent, and indeed very catchy!I shall be sweary-humming that for weeks.It is indeed splendificent. I think it's gonna be on my car playlist for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Skodas park assist thingy makes me grin, for it rocketh mightily. Seems bloody weird driving a car that parks itself though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 That restraint device doesn't look deadly at all. I also see it's a British company, I'm surprised it was designed in teak surround with vinyl/sponge backing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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