colnerov Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, GrumpyCat said: Car stopped by Police on school run in Derby apparently. How on earth does a tyre end up like that? I know a lot of people aren't 'car people', but that must be obvious to anyone that the tyre is fucked. FFS. Hi, ...And it's drivers side, not like it's the other side of the car where they might not see it. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 I was just about to post that photo, saw it earlier but had to go and collect daughter's Megane (new tyres, among other things) How anyone can drive around like that is beyond belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 ST170 idea may be off. I’ve sent emails, messages on Facebook and a text and I’ve not heard anything back from them, just an automated ‘we will respond soon’ message. FFS. Even a reply saying no would be okay, I hate being ignored. Its at Assington Autos near Sudbury if anyone is interested. Le sigh. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 9/24/2019 at 6:26 PM, NorfolkNWeigh said: Some of the crap these people come out with ( magnetic sensors that can identify individual cars ,every 100 m on every bit of Smart motorway ,that automatically set the overhead signs, for instance) beggars belief. Oi, that was literally my university dissertation you bastard. GrumpiusMaximus, myglaren, scdan4 and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 10 hours ago, Snipes said: Why do politicians and journalists insist on saying "the island of Ireland"? Drives me crazy. “Ireland” means very different things to different people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, greengartside said: ST170 idea may be off. I’ve sent emails, messages on Facebook and a text and I’ve not heard anything back from them, just an automated ‘we will respond soon’ message. FFS. Even a reply saying no would be okay, I hate being ignored. Its at Assington Autos near Sudbury if anyone is interested. Le sigh. Telephone call? You’ll get taken 100x more seriously man. greengartside and Amishtat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 18 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said: Telephone call? You’ll get taken 100x more seriously man. Yeah I think that’s the next step. I’ll give them a bell at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 My backs gone. Can barely walk, when I do I can only waddle like an old man. It doesn't bode well for mending the car if it doesn't get better in the next few days. Bunch of frail arse mate.Me and the Mrs both did our backs last weekend... (get your minds out of the gutter) emptying a lock up (ours, I hasten to add). Worst I've ever done my back - still on nurofen three days later - worried it was permanent damage - until I did the exercises in the page linked below. Honestly - made a world of a difference, immediately.https://www.healthline.com/health/pulled-muscle-in-lower-backSent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk purplebargeken and HillmanImp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I'll try those back exercises, mines been shite for weeks, my GP sent me to the local hospital, great I thought, I could see the physio straight away.... No fkin chance, fill in a form and if you haven't heard from us in..... 15 to 16 weeks give us a reminder call ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 15 hours ago, GrumpyCat said: Car stopped by Police on school run in Derby apparently. How on earth does a tyre end up like that? I know a lot of people aren't 'car people', but that must be obvious to anyone that the tyre is fucked. FFS. Mackworth? Or Allenton? Probably works as a stress engineer on turbine blades and it trying to model early cracking issues on Trent 1000. Too busy at work to get to a garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Flat fucking tyre fucking on the way to fucking work fucking fucking. Arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I realise that this has been grumped about before, but it made me considerably grumpy last week. Called into the larger branch of Home Bargains nearby for some stuff. Stuff has disappeared and entire aisles full of Christmas things. Went to our local garden centre for a few bags of gravel and over half of the indoor bit is set out as a winter wonderland with animated polar bears, an animated Santa band playing and Christmas lights in false Chistmas trees covered in fake snow. This was on Saturday THE 28TH OF SEPTEMBER . A few plastic skeletons around in the garden centre as a nod to hallowe'en. Which is still a month away. FFS. myglaren, GrumpyCat, strangeangel and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Oh get over it. We play the shops at their own game. All our gifts are purchased & wrapped, The cards are written, addressed and stamped. The food is all planned, the rellies have all been invited. We are totally sorted. I've started to do the weekly shop in my xmas jumper which really pisses them off in Tesco. By the time the 1st of dec comes round I'll be able to simply pop the cards in the post and get the pre-assembled tree out of its box. Then we can really begin to ENJOY the whole of the xmas month. We have treats booked for every weekend from afternoon teas, to long walks with pubs at the end, long walks with proper breakfasts at the beginning, there's even a knees up organised in the camper van, under the car port where we can give the new Propex a proper work out. The actual 25th just a formality. Let me be the first to wish everyone on here a very Merry xmas everyone. timolloyd, brownnova, BL Bloke and 5 others 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I used to do all that. Now I'm alone, it's a plane to Benidorm. Not the same, but a lot easier. Saabnut, myglaren, taxi paul and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 17 hours ago, chodweaver said: Me and the Mrs both did our backs last weekend... (get your minds out of the gutter) emptying a lock up (ours, I hasten to add). Worst I've ever done my back - still on nurofen three days later - worried it was permanent damage - until I did the exercises in the page linked below. Honestly - made a world of a difference, immediately.https://www.healthline.com/health/pulled-muscle-in-lower-back Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk I'll give them a crack tonight, ta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Fucking pension companies It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 What a bunch of cunts they are tooSavvy, Cavcraft and myglaren 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 27 minutes ago, Wack said: Fucking pension companies It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 What a bunch of cunts they are I'm sure you can pay an independent by the hour. I'm not sure I'd trust any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 The thing is what are they going to tell you for their 3% , yes taking 25% out at 55 will reduce your monthly amount, no shit sherlock They can't tell you how much because it's "invested" so if Robert Maxwell is anything to go by you could be left with 75% of fuck all instead of 100% of fuck all I really really wish I'd put every penny of it into buying a house in 1990 instead of a pension , I'd have been minted myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Yep, it's an expensive thing is that pensions business. One place I spoke to weren't even interested in my pot because it 'wasn't enough for us to deal with'. It might have been fuck all to them, but it was a huge amount to someone skint like me. Fuck them, went elsewhere and my other pension fund will follow suit. Wack, jumpingjehovahs, tooSavvy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Cavcraft said: Yep, it's an expensive thing is that pensions business. One place I spoke to weren't even interested in my pot because it 'wasn't enough for us to deal with'. It might have been fuck all to them, but it was a huge amount to someone skint like me. Fuck them, went elsewhere and my other pension fund will follow suit. My pension fund was decimated in the InEquitable Life scandal many years ago. Lost about £20,000. Many years later, compensation was set at £260. I was tempted to use the cheque as toilet paper. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 10 hours ago, barefoot said: the whole of the xmas month It's not a month, it's 12 days! barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colnerov Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I can remember when it used to be a day. stonedagain and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 If you remember the day you needed more Emva Cream/Baileys/Advocaat or any of the other Christmas only liquid sedatives, if only to spare you from "Christmas specials" or the relatives you only see at Christmas. paulplom, myglaren and BorniteIdentity 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: My pension fund was decimated in the InEquitable Life scandal many years ago. Lost about £20,000. Many years later, compensation was set at £260. I was tempted to use the cheque as toilet paper. My Dad lost his pension in the same scandal. His retirement has been ruined. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 WTF is a pension pot!!! I fkin wish paulplom, Eddie Honda and puddlethumper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 19 hours ago, Wack said: Fucking pension companies It seems yes you can access your pension at 55 , but you now need "financial advice" before you're allowed to withdraw any of it , even the 25% tax free amount The cost of this advice from the pension company 3% of the pension pot , so £300 per £10,000 What a bunch of cunts they are I looked at my Pot several years ago... I thought of the prospect of continuing to contribute until I reached 75... I got a 'mystic meg' pension forecast from my provider... ? Decided that being made poor through my early dotage & likely sq root of FA "inflation adjusted" monthly income was a losers gig!! I'm drawing it down and quietly floating towards my state pension... £750k is a POT 10% is a Puddle ... Spend it, before you're too old to appreciate it stonedagain, privatewire and sheffcortinacentre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Also horizontal with backpain this week. (Overdid the chain-sawing last weekend) And now some turd has jammed eBay classic cars up with spam, spoiling my morning browse..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 3:03 PM, GrumpyCat said: Car stopped by Police on school run in Derby apparently. How on earth does a tyre end up like that? I know a lot of people aren't 'car people', but that must be obvious to anyone that the tyre is fucked. FFS. People always have something more important to spend their money on. I mean a pair of new tyres for that, what we talking for some budgets? £70 for the pair? I don’t buy it that they’ve not seen it. I can see it now it’ll be that they can’t afford the £70 for the tyres but can afford £25 for a takeaway. Priorities all to cock. Hopefully it’ll have been impounded and another idiot off the road. myglaren, paulplom, EssDeeWon and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Fiddle with the advanced search options search for "classic car -rystr-32" under cars to reduce the turd count to normal How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 19 minutes ago, Rovorsche said: Fiddle with the advanced search options .....How Ebay can let somebody with 7 feedbacks list 600 cars is a mystery I notice Chinese traders are very adept at search and browse manipulation. Their tat pops up almost everywhere on eBay now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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