The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Thought about ringing 101 but they'll do fuck all..

 

Try it.  Plod likes an easy score.

 

So to speak, m'lud...

[rainagain]

The charming woman down the street, who not only has the looks and body mass of a hippo, but the temperament too. Got woken up this morning by her screaming down the street at her 4-5 year old child DON'T YOU EFFING BACKCHAT ME AGAIN YOU LITTLE C*NT OR I'LL EFFING SMACK THE SH*T OUT OF YOU

 

 

Sometimes I really wonder if you should need a licence before you can breed.

 

Some of my friends recently adopted a five year old who was removed from a problem family, this is the second child that has had to be removed from the same family. She's starting to come out of her shell but it's a shame watching her play with my kids as it's obvious she has spend her whole life being ignored and dumped in front of the tv. She can name all the characters on all the kids shows but struggles with imaginative play as she's never done it before. No doubt her family will have another kid and again the poor child will be taken off them.

[rainagain]

Oh, I'm not expecting much help from them. Lets face it, when they turn up this evening (a full 16 hours after the fact, if they arrive when they say they will) I'll get a crime reference number and nothing else. I reported it only so that it was reported if you know what I mean. I won't be trying to claim on my own insurance either!

 

I was disappointed with the Police when my OH's car was hit and the other driver did a runner even though it turned out later he was fully insured (still over the limit from the night before?). I managed to give chase, well as much as you could in a 1.2 Stilo until I got his plate. I used askmid to contact his insurance company who in turn got in contact with him. He admitted hitting us and leaving the scene of an accident, the Police who attended the scene and took our details said it was likely he would be prosecuted for leaving the scene.

 

However this is where it got strange, when I tried to call the Police for updates I kept getting told someone would call me back and this never happened. I had stopped bothering to call them when out of the blue the Police called and said they had just 'discovered' that he had attended his local Police station the following day after the collision and made a statement, therefore even though he admitted leaving the scene which is illegal there weren't going to take it further. Which I read as he has mates in high places that have fabricated a statement for him and binned the prosecution. 

[Urko]

Complain and get them to take it up with the driver. We have a decent, regular Hermes guy who drives a 2004 Punto that's always absolutely packed with stuff. Comes at about 8am too which is handy.

The woman who does the Myhermes stuff round here is brilliant, drives an ancient berlingo in faded red too.

[Urko]

Royal Fucking Fail. I ordered (and received) an iPhone 5 battery from a 100% feedback eBay seller. So good was it, I ordered another one for my spare phone. From the same seller, who posted it in the same sort of envelope as the first one, and at the same Post Office. For some reason, known only to themselves, Royal Fail went to OMG DEFCON 1 and destroyed it because they thought it was a hydrogen bomb. Or something. The email I received from them (below) raises a question or two: are all lithium batteries regarded by them as apocalypse-inducing, and they just missed the other dozen or so that I've bought from eBay over the last 12 months? Or, as I suspect in this case, the person who scanned/x rayed the parcel was just a fuckwit?

 

As a native of Northern Ireland, I can tell you all that iPhone batteries are no good for making bombs - not enough kick

 

 

That seems a bit rich - wonder what their policy on bongo maqs is (do bongo mags even exist any more?).

[Bobthebeard]

Sorry to derail the above, but Sky has got me grumpy. Not the actual sky, but Sky...

Anyway, we pay for tv. Have a static caravan in Scotland with a Sky box. The Sky card only works after a fashion at the static. Can't use most of what we pay for. The card WE pay for. So if we are at the static, with the actual Sky card we can't be at home using it can we? The robbers want us to take out another subscription. No chance. Not paying twice for the same service. How can that be ok? Is that legal? Suspect it probably is, because Sky. But not morally right surely?

[oldcars]

Sweet! I live 5 mins from Hartlebury anyway so I'll pop down and have a look at some point.

Get some pics

[flat4alfa]

That seems a bit rich - wonder what their policy on bongo maqs is (do bongo mags even exist any more?).

 

http://www.paulraymond.xxx/magazines

[fairkens]

Sorry to derail the above, but Sky has got me grumpy. Not the actual sky, but Sky...

Anyway, we pay for tv. Have a static caravan in Scotland with a Sky box. The Sky card only works after a fashion at the static. Can't use most of what we pay for. The card WE pay for. So if we are at the static, with the actual Sky card we can't be at home using it can we? The robbers want us to take out another subscription. No chance. Not paying twice for the same service. How can that be ok? Is that legal? Suspect it probably is, because Sky. But not morally right surely?

Just sacked off sky for freesat, sick of the sods and will be in profit after 6 months, might work for you

[anonymous user]

I got in about an hour ago, the pups had decided to try their paws teeth at being electricians. They are both alive but took great delight in showing me where they had chewed through a metal sheathed cable which went to a power point.

 

I found which circuit to isolate (by trial and error, the pencilled labels on the distribution board are not readable in the dark) and got the rest of the power back on. Unfortunately most of my tools are down at the caravan, but with the pliers and screwdriver from the Bentley and kitchen scissors I have cut out the chewed bit and temporarily remounted the powerpoint about three foot up the wall. I need more tools to do a proper job, as I have had to disconnect the extractor fan from that circuit and need to shorten the other even more armoured cable on the circuit which is now looped up the doorpost.

 

When getting the screwdriver and pliers I could smell petrol, I think the fuel tank is weeping on the Bentley (so it's using petrol even standing still) - new tank about £1600 so I think a repair will be tried, but I'll need to use most of the petrol up first probably by siphoning it out for the Land Rover

[panhard65]

Have I missed something here but do we have another Bentley on the forum ??? I know you were thinking about it but must of missed the thread.

[anonymous user]

Have I missed something here but do we have another Bentley on the forum ??? I know you were thinking about it but must of missed the thread.

Unfortunately yes, it's a gently decaying MkV1. It's in my Land Rover thread,

[messerschmitt owner]

dogs and Bentleys, I thought it was xtriple again - but no!! lol

[Urko]

Sorry to derail the above, but Sky has got me grumpy. Not the actual sky, but Sky...

Anyway, we pay for tv. Have a static caravan in Scotland with a Sky box. The Sky card only works after a fashion at the static. Can't use most of what we pay for. The card WE pay for. So if we are at the static, with the actual Sky card we can't be at home using it can we? The robbers want us to take out another subscription. No chance. Not paying twice for the same service. How can that be ok? Is that legal? Suspect it probably is, because Sky. But not morally right surely?

Nothing about Sky seems morally right to me.  Since the last woman who paid for it moved out and took hers with her, I don't have it.  She was paying a fortune for something where they put on 10 minutes of adverts every 5 minutes - that robbing bastard Murdoch must be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Sealtainn]

I got cheesed off with Sky and the final straw was them telling me the package price was going up. Told them to shove it and bought an Amazon Fire box thingywhatsit for £60 and use it with my Netflix subscription (£7.95 a month - freebie from Vodafone with my SIM only mobile) so after 6 weeks I am in profit from what I was paying Sky. After telling them to cancel, they bombarded me with offers to come back, started off with 25% off for 12 months, in the end they were getting desperate and phoning me saying I could have 18 months at 65% off...........

[Richard]

Just sacked off sky for freesat, sick of the sods and will be in profit after 6 months, might work for you

 

We did the same a few years ago and I've never regretted it. Our Freesat box was quite expensive (bought in Comet, so it was a while ago) but it still only took 8 months of not buying the basic Sky package to pay for itself.

[Cavcraft]

I didn't want to buy any more cars or cycles, so I bought two cars in two days. And two cycles.

[cort16]

Rover - Broken and steamy

Cortina - In bits and  needy

Panda - Timing belt creaky, mot mans knuckles bleedy

Daihatsu - MOT short and car squeaky

 

Bank balance requires defibrillation, need to put credit card in hibernation 

 

Juke is the only car road fit, not all new cars r shit.

[Lankytim]

I scrapped 3 cats yesterday, two from Multiplas and one from a pez Mondeo. I was offered £100 odd by a pukka cat recycling guy on FB, but I'd have to post them to him. A local place was recommended so I popped in there out of convenience more than anything. They only offered £60 but I thought sod it and took the money. Checked my bank and they have short changed me by a tenner! The hand written receipt only says £50 too, (I never checked at the time, stupidly) I guess because of that a phone call in the morning to ask for the extra 10 quid they owe me will fall on deaf ears. Block their yard with an artic and bugger off for a cup of tea and a sarnie for a few hours? Not worth losing my job over... Now it was £15............

[richbraith]

I'm fairly new here, but I like a moan so thought I'd join in and moan here at you lot.  These are the most annoying things for me this week.

 

1. My best mate (who's a farmer) being infiltrated by poachers who, on realising they couldn't get their peugeot/Citroen van (the police think) out of his field decided to vent their frustration by shooting one of his sheep, which had two very small lambs, with a high powered rifle.  Leaving two orphans and my heartbroken friend to have to finish the job, plus a load of costly damage.  It's his birthday tomorrow so I've bought him cake.  It's the least I can do.

2. The Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes song at the end of the shit 80s chick flick Dirty Dancing...why have a film that's set in 1963 and is full of 1963 music, 1963 fashions, cars etc to then spoil the effect at the end with a big number that's about as 1980s as it gets?

This enrages me all over again whenever I'm forced to hear the blasted thing on the wireless, and I think it will forever.  Even though the film is cack.

[HH-R]

OMG, I can't believe you're dissing 80s CLASSIC Dirty Dancing. Welcome along, though.

[HH-R]

It was part of an advert for The Best Car In The Real World, too:

 

 

EDIT: just realised I've got the wrong song, ha!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Brings a tear to my glass eye

[Bucketeer]

Re - Hermes.

I did a brief stint working in a Hermes warehouse some years ago. Trust me, it's not just the drivers that chuck things about.

[Lord Sterling]

Brill. Stuck at Birkenhead docks because they want "paperwork" with the car.

 

Also, although my drive from Cardiff to Liverpool had lots of lovely scenery, the bloody drive was long, very long and very tiring.

[chaseracer]

Billy will be along shortly with a cup of tea 

[dugong]

ALL THE HAYFEVER

[dave21478]

Took the bloody Panda for its CT retest this morning and it flopped it before I even got to the fucking test centre.

 

 

 

I have changed the carb and it seems to run ok and I spent a while fucking with the headlights, but one bulb was out and its a weird not-quite-h4 fitment so I left early intending to get one in Le Halfords near the test centre.

Drove down to town which is a 40 minute trip, got the bulb and as I fitted it in the carpark there was a little "plink" noise and the reflector/bulb holder part came off the adjusters and ended up flapping loose inside the headlight.

 

JUST. FUCKING. KILL. ME.

 

Since one of the retest items was headlight aim there was no point going so I cancelled and came home and have now been messing with a heat gun to unglue the lense so I could ram the reflector back onto its shitty plastic clips and wang some wee self tapper woodscrews in to hold them tight.

 

This car seems determined to not ever see the road.

[ruffgeezer]

Lazy, rascist co-worker.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

I'm fairly new here, but I like a moan so thought I'd join in and moan here at you lot. These are the most annoying things for me this week.

 

1. My best mate (who's a farmer) being infiltrated by poachers who, on realising they couldn't get their peugeot/Citroen van (the police think) out of his field decided to vent their frustration by shooting one of his sheep, which had two very small lambs, with a high powered rifle. Leaving two orphans and my heartbroken friend to have to finish the job, plus a load of costly damage. It's his birthday tomorrow so I've bought him cake. It's the least I can do.

Wasn't the sheep going to be killed and eaten anyway?