brammy777 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Stupid Flickr 'photo of the week' contests. I entered one for British Convertibles made between 1945 and '75, only to receive a message a few minutes later asking me to change it, as the car I had entered has four seats and is thus against the rules... Maybe they should rename the contest as ones for Roadsters then. Such a trivial matter to get annoyed about, but come on. It's going to be a load of bloody Austin Healeys now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I was wondering the other day where you were, Brammy - we hadn't heard much from you of late. Good to have you back. Do you think they'd have thrown it out if it was of an Alvis convertible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brammy777 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 A TF21 no less Thanks for the welcome back. In a more worthy grump, I have still got absolutely no job going. I'm not going to make this a WOE IS ME post, I am lucky enough to still be living at home and have all I need, but it's just a bit disheartening. There is a popular line that my friends spin at me when I am unsuccesful in applying, and that is the good old; 'you are over qualified for it'. Is that honestly true? Just because I have a BTEC Diploma doesn't mean I don't want to work in bloody retail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 A TF21 no less I didn't expect to guess the manufacturer, but a TE21/TF21 did spring to mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brammy777 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 In all fairness, David, who seems to be the guy who is 'in charge' of that group, so to speak, did send a very nicely worded PM about it, so, a mountain of a molehill really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I am categorising my grumps today. 1. AA Gill. Why this pretentious arsehole still has a job is beyond me. His piece on MediaCity was a load of stuck up bollocks. This leads me neatly on to..... 2. MediaCity itself. Why bother London? You don't understand the North, only a tiny fraction of your staff want to relocate, and it's still going to cost you a fortune. Sorry, let me rephrase that. You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, so why try to 'cater' for it in such a half arsed way? So that's 1,500 BBC staff relocating out of a total of 17,000. Where are the local jobs going to be then? Up the chimney? Down t'pit? Swimming in the fucking gravy? MediaCity's just a cock waving exercise for all concerned. I'm looking at YOU, BBC, ITV and the University of Salford. The building's costing the latter £40k A WEEK to rent, and the transport arrangements are a shambles. Hmm, good prospects. 3. Audi A1s. MOTHA_WAT has bought one, for some reason. Yeah, I don't like it. I'll list the worst bits: a. Seats with stupid bolsters that don't locate. The backrest canes your back. b. The suspension is too firm and crashes over everything. c. Stop \ Start. FUCKING. START. UP. AGAIN. Yeah. Who's gonna push an Audi that's stopped dead? d. The stereo controls are RETARDED. Why are there two rotary knobs for track searches and power \ volume? Why does the fucking stereo come back on when I've turned it off? Why not just put one large rotary in the centre for power \ volume, and put two buttons either side to do the tracks? e. The power delivery. So that's absolutely FUCK ALL power until 2100 rpm, and then you get all of [what's there] in a bellowing hit, and then you have to change gear. Who mapped this fucking thing, an idiot? You CANNOT drive the damn thing on a trailing throttle, i.e. gently. If you want to make any progress (e.g. to accelerate up to the speed limit) you have to smack the throttle down to the stop. Then you get into the power band, and full boost, and you're going about 20 mph faster than you wanted. If all VAG TDIs are like this (and they are if the ones I've driven are any indication) I'm not surprised in the slightest they're all barreling along at 2000 mph on dual carriageways \ motorways. f. The reaction it gets from others. Seriously, you'd have thought I'd won the lottery the way my friends creamed themselves when I got out of it. No, it's a boring little German hatchback. Calm down. Least Motha_Wat likes it. Then again, anything's better than a sodding Peugeot 206. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Hey, that looks quite neat! However, outside of a retouched photoshop creation, it's probably very normal looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Hey, that looks quite neat! However, outside of a retouched photoshop creation, it's probably very normal looking. g. This image shatters like porcelain when you hear it idle. Sounds like a knackered FX4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, ... The real reason is because the BBC have heard that Hirst lives there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 You don't WANT to understand the North, and you don't care enough about it, ... The real reason is because the BBC have heard that Hirst lives there. Everything past the Watford Gap Services can go bollox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Don't worry NC, the West Country's only good for retiring to/having a second home in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 North/South divide - just look at BBC weather report. "We'll be having lots of sun, but people in the north will have shitty weather. But fuck them, we don't care." Also, has anyone seen 'Click', BBC New's weekly 'technology' report. GR8 if technology consists of Ipads and social networking. That's all it covers. It's SHIT. I no longer watch BBC News, because the newsreaders make a sloppy smacking noise with their mouths before they talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 d. The stereo controls are RETARDED. Why are there two rotary knobs for track searches and power \ volume? Why does the fucking stereo come back on when I've turned it off? Why not just put one large rotary in the centre for power \ volume, and put two buttons either side to do the tracks? I prefer to have two rotary knobs for volume and track / station searches. Dislike buttons for track search, cannot abide 'em for volume. That's the one thing that pisses me off about the Nakamichi, buttons for track search. Arghh. Four of 'em. The Jag has a nice rotary control for the volume, and this bloody big wedge shaped thing for track / station search. Hate it. The Heep has buttons for volume and track. Near identical ones, near enough next to each other. Wonderful. Go to turn the radio up and change station. GR9 for making me look at the stereo, GR1 for user friendliness. Skodas in work have probably very similar stereo setups to the A1. Dead easy to use. Don't have to look at it to make it work. This type of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 When I was in NZ I met a Mancunian and the Kiwis were greatly amused by our dirty northern monkey/soft southern fairy banter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 the real question is where does the north begin? my opinion: Leeds/Manchester anything below that is either the midlands, or the south Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Skodas in work have probably very similar stereo setups to the A1. Dead easy to use. Don't have to look at it to make it work. This type of thing. Sorry mate, the controls in the A1 are fucking stupid. And the stereo comes back on when you turn it off. Quite glad I don't have to drive it around actually. A car with stupid controls mapped by an idiot does not make for a happy Wat. But OMG OMG OMG it's an Audi OMG the screen pops up so what I think doesn't mean shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 good point, autofive. Sheffield seems more of a Midlands city than a Northern one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Somebody in the neighbourhood has had Adele's latest album on full blast for most of the past two mornings. She's not still recording is she? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear, the music industry is closer to death than I thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tonedepear Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 That VAG stereo does look a bit of a faff. I recently (ish) invested in one of these: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_788105_langId_-1_categoryId_243051 It's a DAB radio, and broadly speaking, it's actually really really really really good. Sound quality/balance/etc is better than the 2 other fairly pricey decent proper brand stereos. HOWEVER, almost every conceivable feature is accessed via the big round volume knob thingy. Aaargh. It has track << >> buttons, but to change folders/directories (it's an MP3 machine with USB) you have to press one of the other buttons, then dial the big button until you've found what you want. To set something to repeat (folder/track) you have to press a different button, then dial the big button, etc etc etc. It's an absolute ballache and requires absolute focus and concentration. Fine at home, useless in the car. Completely ruins an otherwise brilliant unit. Oh aye, and "t' north" begins at Worksop, btw. Nottinghamshire = Midlands. Yorkshire = Northern. Scotland is a different matter, being from Aberdeen, I view people from Yorkshire as Northern, and people from Dumfries as Southern. And people from Edinburgh as tourists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 My Mondeo came fitted with a Kenwood DNX5220BT stereo. It's a all singing, all dancing SatNav/Bluetooth handsfree/DVD/ Ipod stereo and to be frank it's a PITA, At night it's so bright that it's glares in your face, The controls are fiddly to use meaning you have to take your eyes of the road and considerate on the stereo meaning a chance of DEATH, The hand free is a right arse to set up everytime you want to use it and i don't get on with the Garmin based sat nav, It's just so hard to understand!. But on the plus side it is pretty decent for playing your ipod through On other stereo related grumpy news, The Kenwood CD player i bought for my Escort turned up a few days ago, I also bought the Ford ISO plug thinking it would be a simple plug and play jobby, No chance, I've never seen a Ford radio like it, The plug is different to my old Fords. I think it's to do with the balance toggle on the dash, I have my power cables but then i have just 4 single speaker cables going into the radio even though there's 4 speakers in the car with two wires going into each speaker, How the hell do i wire that up?, How can 4 wires turn into 8?!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 the real question is where does the north begin? my opinion: Leeds/Manchester anything below that is either the midlands, or the south T' North is everything above the M25, on the right is marshes and swamp people, to the left it's all farmers and sheep and below we have that adorable gay bit and then France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 If you can get gravy in a chip shop, you're in the North. If your barman isn't Australian, and knows what a pint of mild is, you're in the North.If you see Skoda Favorits, Nissan Bluebirds, Blue rinses, you could be bloody anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 If you can't even get proper chips in a chip shop, you're in the South.If your barman resides in an Irish theme pub that was an insurance office 3 years ago, you're in the South.If you only see high end Skodas and Nissan Jukes, you're in the South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 If female shop assistants call you 'love', then you're in the North.If male shop assistants call you 'love', then you're in Brighton.Anything in between is in the Midlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 If you can't even get proper chips in a chip shop, you're in England EFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 If people around you are bitching about "southerners" you're in the north.If people around you are bitching about "northerners" you're in the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'm sure I've heard Spalding named as "Englands most southerly, Northern town." I think, rather than chips and gravy or fizzy lager and wine bars, its all about the old "Baff or Barth" debate. ^^ BAFF ^^ BARTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 You know you are in the north once the "baffs" are full of coal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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