The grumpy thread

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Reading this has made me realise that I have never, in 16 years , seen the bonnet open on any car in my street, that didn't belong to me obviously.

There are 8 houses and about 20 cars( not including mine), when I was a kid I remember there would always be someone tinkering with their car at weekends, even if it was just checking levels etc.

[beko1987]

The only time I ever usually see bonnets open in our road is when I'm stood by it with the owner helping them/laughing at them usually sadly

 

I've been known to 'pop out' before when Lenny is having issues with his astra van... last time it kept dying when hot and we had the fuel filter out, and that looked fine and that's as far as my knowledge of modern deisels go. Turns out it was a sensor, which wasnt putting the EML on...

 

"Ah sorry to hear that Lenny, but 've got to pop out to fetch something for Amy, good luck!" GLF...

[The Moog]

Having a totally shit week at work and it is only 2 days long.  Full of meetings and just utter bollocks.  Quite close to walking out...

[Tamworthbay]

The only time I ever usually see bonnets open in our road is when I'm stood by it with the owner helping them/laughing at them usually sadly

 

I've been known to 'pop out' before when Lenny is having issues with his astra van... last time it kept dying when hot and we had the fuel filter out, and that looked fine and that's as far as my knowledge of modern deisels go. Turns out it was a sensor, which wasnt putting the EML on...

 

"Ah sorry to hear that Lenny, but 've got to pop out to fetch something for Amy, good luck!" GLF...

I now hide from the old dear next door but one, she starts the car, puts it in second and revs it to 4-5000rpm then uses the clutch as an accelerator. She has got through three clutches in a year on the old golf, the second was done under warranty but when the first came out the garage fitted the new one then gave her her money back but said they didn't want to see her again! I have lost count of how many times I have jump started her when she leaves the interior light on after looking for her keys after a trip to the pub. She is mid 80s and is getting to the point I wonder if she should be driving anymore.

[barmatt]

Broken down freight train ahead of us has delayed my collection by an hour, I'm grumpy because I should be playing with a new toy now!!!

 

still half an hour to go.....

 

 

 

 

Are we there yet????

[vulgalour]

Rover was great yesterday, no problems.  Today I collected the new plug leads and alternator belt, fitted the former, started the car and fuel is just pissing out all over the place from the fuel rail where it goes into the manifold where the injectors are.  That'l be an O ring that's decided to let go then.  Joy.

[Captain Furious]

Today has progressed at approximately 0.5 times the rate of a normal earth day, I can only assume the doomsday scenario of the earth ceasing to spin that I saw on discovery once is actually happening.  Time doesn't exactly fly by here anyway but today is utter torture.

 

Had a couple of meetings too which normally pass the time in some sort of masochistic way.  I was attempting to count how many times the word 'collaboration' was mentioned, but I didn't have a clicker and lost count at eleventy hundred and something.

[anonymous user]

Had a couple of meetings too which normally pass the time in some sort of masochistic way.  I was attempting to count how many times the word 'collaboration' was mentioned, but I didn't have a clicker and lost count at eleventy hundred and something.

For long/boring/pointless meetings, apart from playing "bullshit bingo", a colleague and I used to play a game where we would introduce a meaningless "new" management phrase and start using it to see how soon it would be before somebody else would start using it. For a while "now" became replaced with "in the immediate time-frame" in just about every meeting or report, sometimes we wished we hadn't started it.

[RoadworkUK]

Thanks to the video above I've just remembered how much Gregg Wallace looks like a hybrid of Penfold from Dangermouse and the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man.

[richardmorris]

There was some truly psychotic driving in said region of the M6 last night, too.

If I'd have got all the number I'd have reported the cockwomble in the 65 reg tesla belting through windlesham an hour ago on the wrong side of the road at a conservative 60mph in the 30 limit. Overtook three cars plus a ups van which was behind me ( our local delivery driver for work actually) towards a car pulling out of a junction. Said car swerves left onto pavement and tesla guy swerves left and missed me on my bike by about a foot ( at mentioned 60). Swerved so hard he ricocheted off the kerb on our side of the road which then throws him back into the path of oncoming traffic smacking the mirrror on a people carrier. He then accelerated up the hill without stopping.

Either it was stolen or he was drunk I expect. Oh, I know he overtook three cars, a van and me on the bike as we all stopped! Happened so fast though no one got the number.

[RoadworkUK]

At least his mirror will cost £££ to fix, if it was even his car.

[DVee8]

After the pedal bike accident my lad had yesterday,he now has to go to the facial injuries unit at Newcastle RVI tomorrow to have the infection drained from his lip and his fingers need re-xraying.

[chaseracer]

For long/boring/pointless meetings, apart from playing "bullshit bingo", a colleague and I used to play a game where we would introduce a meaningless "new" management phrase and start using it to see how soon it would be before somebody else would start using it. For a while "now" became replaced with "in the immediate time-frame" in just about every meeting or report, sometimes we wished we hadn't started it.

 

Yep.

 

"Transformational change"?

 

If you mean "imminent privatisation and large-scale redundancies" fucking say so, you shiny-suited twat, and don't offend my ears with patronising tortological inexactitudes.

 

GAH.

[dollywobbler]

If I'd have got all the number I'd have reported the cockwomble in the 65 reg tesla belting through windlesham an hour ago on the wrong side of the road at a conservative 60mph in the 30 limit. Overtook three cars plus a ups van which was behind me ( our local delivery driver for work actually) towards a car pulling out of a junction. Said car swerves left onto pavement and tesla guy swerves left and missed me on my bike by about a foot ( at mentioned 60). Swerved so hard he ricocheted off the kerb on our side of the road which then throws him back into the path of oncoming traffic smacking the mirrror on a people carrier. He then accelerated up the hill without stopping.

Either it was stolen or he was drunk I expect. Oh, I know he overtook three cars, a van and me on the bike as we all stopped! Happened so fast though no one got the number.

 

Maybe it was in self-driving-twat mode?

[richardmorris]

I have more faith in computers! I've no idea really what he ( presumably) was thinking (?) of. Nothing to do with me on the bike, I was just in the wrong place. I'll have a chat with the local police next time I see them round the park and see what they'd advise ( the chief one likes the 2cv!)

[HillmanImp]

Just went to get a new carseat for Imp jr. but none of them would fit safely on the Jags rear seats as they are quite bucketed and the base wouldn't sit right.

 

Normally this would be the perfect excuse to buy another car but I like the Jag.

 

They are having to refer it to the seat manufacturers to see if they have any suggestions on what seat to use. I imagine it will be a really expensive one.

[beko1987]

Can you get some dense foam to level it out?

[Tamworthbay]

Just went to get a new carseat for Imp jr. but none of them would fit safely on the Jags rear seats as they are quite bucketed and the base wouldn't sit right.

 

Normally this would be the perfect excuse to buy another car but I like the Jag.

 

They are having to refer it to the seat manufacturers to see if they have any suggestions on what seat to use. I imagine it will be a really expensive one.

We have a Graco one that sits well in the BMW seats which are quite sculpted.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody Rover 800s. Where are these bastard things coming from? Is somone trying to tell me something? Since spotting the Partridge "twin" Sterling in Colchester I've seen 4 more and again, not in a position to photograph them as I like to do. ARSE.

 

Spotted another late Silver Fastback Sterling down south somewhere near Colchester/Essex area. Then I spotted Red Coupe in Abergele station carpark, couse I couldn't pap it because I had 2 minutes before my train was due and the carpark was on the otherside. GAH! On the same day, a Silver Sterling was spotted going the other way on the M62, then on the same stretch a Black 827 Limo with a couple of young chaps in it was spotted near Warrington, I briefly spoke to the driver and I did get a picture of the Limo.

 

NEXT

[omegod]

Fucking Nissan Qashqis or whatever the twats are called, no owner seems able to drive the bastard things and when they do the retired coffin dodging wart infested knobheads seem to have all the time in the world letting all and sundry out at junctions while people who actually need to be somewhere sometime fucking soon have to wait behind their 20 mph arses that brake a mile before a speedbump.

 

They get up my nose

[jakebullet]

I have some crazy German woman who keeps sending me photos of different bmx bikes about the size of a postage stamp, and asking in German if my valve caps will fit. (I think that's what it means). I keep explaining if it's got car valves then yes, if not then no, and she just sends another photo of a different bmx.

 

As a bonus Kinky Girl came to visit today, and then went mega wonky in asda. Loss of speech / Ability to walk means maximum fear for me. I've seen it before but still don't like it at all.

[HillmanImp]

We have a Graco one that sits well in the BMW seats which are quite sculpted.

 

Do you know the model name? Might have a gander at it if so but will see what I can find from them anyhow.

[Ghosty]

Fucking Nissan Qashqis or whatever the twats are called, no owner seems able to drive the bastard things and when they do the retired coffin dodging wart infested knobheads seem to have all the time in the world letting all and sundry out at junctions while people who actually need to be somewhere sometime fucking soon have to wait behind their 20 mph arses that brake a mile before a speedbump.

 

They get up my nose

 

When we were looking at the Cooper S today a metallic beige 08 Crapqai+2 being used as a family mongwagon pulled in to the dealership.

 

It had three summer tyres and one mud/snow tyre.

[dave21478]

I moaned a while back about local road repairs* with their method of spray painting some wet tar on, dumping hundreds of tons of gravel down and fucking off leaving the traffic to press it down and force the excess into the ditch.

 

Came upon a just-happened accident where some poor sod in a 206 had got a massve weave on in the loose gravel and ditched it, doing a full roll in the process. No injury, but dead car.

[Tamworthbay]

Do you know the model name? Might have a gander at it if so but will see what I can find from them anyhow.

Looks like this one but blue, you can also get just the bottom as a booster which we also have as its handier to shift aroun if needed and two between four cars works a bit easier.

http://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/baby/car-seats-booster/c-591/groups-2-3-4-11-years-approx-/p-3689/graco-junior-maxi-lyon-group-2-3/?gclid=CLXFtvDE7M4CFUgo0wodMEQFPw

[HillmanImp]

Looks like this one but blue, you can also get just the bottom as a booster which we also have as its handier to shift aroun if needed and two between four cars works a bit easier.http://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/baby/car-seats-booster/c-591/groups-2-3-4-11-years-approx-/p-3689/graco-junior-maxi-lyon-group-2-3/?gclid=CLXFtvDE7M4CFUgo0wodMEQFPw

Imp Jr is a bit smaller but I will see what else they do to see if they can fit the Jag.

 

I am sure the shape of the seats is not that extreme so there must be something suitable.

[DodgeRover]

Pedantic note:-  not using his present biscuit tins as he is selecting frequencies which bounce off the ionosphere and don't do through as the US of A is not line of sight due the earth curvature a la..

 

ionosphere.jpg

 

Skip was good on the CB the other day, had some Russians on the Euro frequencies, shame no other bugger in my area seems to use them in the daytime apart from the bloke in London who spouts swearing all day on Ch 19 whenever he's on....

Get a few regulars at home time though,

[Ghosty]

I moaned a while back about local road repairs* with their method of spray painting some wet tar on, dumping hundreds of tons of gravel down and fucking off leaving the traffic to press it down and force the excess into the ditch.

 

Came upon a just-happened accident where some poor sod in a 206 had got a massve weave on in the loose gravel and ditched it, doing a full roll in the process. No injury, but dead car.

 

There's a stretch of the A57  between the Snake and Sheffield they're doing some sort of road repair on, with temporary traffic lights just round a blind-ish corner.

 

Someone in a Yaris had come round the corner and gone right into the back of a brand new Discovery.

 

Ouch.

[cort1977]

Imp Jr is a bit smaller but I will see what else they do to see if they can fit the Jag.

 

I am sure the shape of the seats is not that extreme so there must be something suitable.

I have seen recommendations in the instructions for these things to use a rolled up towel or similar under the seat to level it out.   This may sound a bit shady but that's what it said.   A piece of foam as suggested above sounds OK, that's what car seats are made of after all and you just want to hold the child seat in the correct position for the straps to restrain it effectively.

 

The whole issue is a minefield as no one wants to give a definitive opinion.   It is possible to go on a course and become a 'qualified' fitter of these things here.   I got so fed up of the wife and her friends fretting about car seats that I thought about doing it just to shut them up, then I found out it was a 3 day course that cost $800.   To fit child seats.   It's not rocket surgery FFS.

[RobT]

Minor grump, but people keep parking in front of my garage and it's doing my head. I've had a couple of cones out there for the past 6 months or so, but they keep getting moved/driven into, and one has disappeared tonight. Apart from students, who the fuck nicks a cone?

 

I've had a quick look online, but is it possible to buy cones with sand filled bases? I want some immovable FRO conage or something now as it'll only get worse if I dont. It's starting to curtail my shite fettling a bit these days, as there's always some inconsiderate cunt parking out back (if not in front of my garage then someone else's).