The grumpy thread

[HillmanImp]

Managed to get a seat. Was £116 more than the one I had originally wanted but its only money.

[maxpower]

Got phone call today asking for permission to put my lil dog to sleep ... at least she is in no pain now

 

GUTTED

[Tamworthbay]

Sorry to hear that, Its crap mate, it's always horrible.

[fordperv]

sorry for your loss max power, may she forever run free across rainbow bridge

[Mr A Lawrence]

Sorry to hear that max.

[chaseracer]

The parking in front of the garage thing is a cunt. I leave a note asking people to leave the flat details or a contact number. If I see them, I ask if they could park less close to the garage door so I can at least open it to do stuff. I pushed the Focus out the way the other week but I was having a bad day.

 

I have let tyres down before. 

 

Do you have something that could tow the cunts out of the way? Jack up the rear end and push it out of the way is another method. 

 

Alternatively...

 

 

It's the only language these bastards understand...

 

[MarvinsMom]

my grump is that i keep looking at flippin' BINI's for sale.

 

no real need for another car, 2 years of 75 and maybe i fancy a change,

 

and i dunno what else that is a bit unusual 

 

which means i may well have been seduced by the dark side of the force.

 

fuckstix.

[Frogchod]

Grump.  Sort of car related too. So a pug 306 goes up in flames at Speedy (frog kwick fit) and starts a mahoosive fire. Great, one less Speedy, except my electrical wholesalers next door also was toasted. No worries I thought,get a new account at the only other wholesalers in town, except that they're closed for stocktaking for two days.    Looks like I've an 80km detour to pick gear up tomorrow. Fuggin Peugeots.

[Noel Tidybeard]

"there has been a successful login to your Paypal account from a device in New Zealand" and it's not a spam mail.  Fucksticks.  Can't resolve online as the phone numbers they sent the confirmation info to are different to any number I've ever given them so I have to wait to call the free phone number when the offices are open tomorrow.

 

I'm quite worried about this.  I've got my monthly payment arriving from one of my projects and it's a large one, I rely on it to pay for quite a bit.  There was also some money sat in the account as I've had a couple of customers pay me just before it was shut down.  I stand to lose several hundred pounds.  I'm just hoping they've been suitably proactive and I haven't actually lost anything and will be able to get back into my account and to my money.

 

Getting rid of the Paypal account isn't an option, I absolutely rely on it to earn a living.  I suspect it's a random hack attempt, a fellow artist was hit earlier this year with the same thing but they got into his bank account as well and he just had to watch his balance shrinking which frankly I find a terrifying thought.  So yeah.  This is not going to be conducive to a good night's sleep at all.

 

CHANGE PASSWORD AT THE VERY LEAST NOW

[Tamworthbay]

Car parts for less, bastards

Find the bits I want, yup, get a discount code, yup, free dleivery, yup

 

All is going well until.......... I try and pay for the fucking things. I have used them once before and didn't set up an account but it claims the email is already in use. The generic zero security password I use for such things doesn't work and it won't let me in through the continue without account bit. I click for it to send password, email arrives but WONT FUCKING OPEN, by this point I am ready to chuck the iPad through the window. If the bits weren't £20 cheaper than anywhere else I would have left it. After multiple attempts and half an hour of stress it finally accepts a password THE SAME FUCKING PASSWORD I TRIED THE FIRST TIME. Twats.

[Pillock]

I know it's a bit late Vulg, but PayPal support two factor authentication where they text you a number to log in. So I could happily tell you my password is Ar$eC4ndl3 but the next step is requesting a one time code which has to come to the phone in my hand.

 

I was once at Santa Pod and got the text come through... Meant someone had got my password but been stopped from accessing. Still need to change password asap but it's another layer.

 

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Dropbox and loads of places do it. I generate most codes on my watch, PP are a bit behind in demanding to text you it.

[purplebargeken]

All post 1996 cars are shit.

 

I may go on about this for a while 'cos I am hacked off. 

[Ghosty]

I might be singing from a similar hymn sheet next time I get off the phone, depends what PBIS etc think of a certain type of car well regarded in these parts.

[purplebargeken]

Did you speak to Francesca? She sounds gorgeous. 

[jakebullet]

Evilbay AGAIN.
 
Message from idiot:

I fitted this to my 2cv. The thread is wrong, it is now stuck and my gear lever is ruined. I only did it up loosely, the thread must be badly formed.

 

Idiot of course has opened a case, which means I can pay £3 to get back the gear knob that he's cross threaded (+ £9 refund), or I can give him £9.

 

I point out to idiot he's cross threaded it as it was perfect when it left me. After drilling several hundred 2cv ones it is definitely the correct thread.

 

Thanks, well it wasnt cross threaded and it has completely jammed on the end and wont come off so i would like a refund, which i am entitled to under the distance selling rules. My gear lever is going to cost more than £8.99 to put right.

 

What kind of simpleton can't screw a bloody gear knob on?

 

At this point it is traditional to make a statement that includes the words "argos catalogue". However I've had a new idea and will be testing it shortly. Shares in argos catalogue printers fell 2.9%.

[Captain Furious]

Isn't a gear knob being jammed on very tightly the desired result?

[jakebullet]

I've not seen the result, and am being held to ransom thus have to take his word that it's not fitted correctly. I'm guessing he's cross threaded it at the start and numpty style tried to keep on forcing it and has torn up the thread. The pool ball dust he's created will then bind the thread.

 

The other idiot fail is I'll just tighten it another 3/4 turn > bang! hole in top of ball, n complaint that they hardly tightened it at all.

[robinmasters]

They were supposed to be quite economical for what they are, but that's from a time when mid 30s was considered good for a family car.

Never mind policemen looking younger making you feel old, I still think mid-thirties is a good mpg for a family car.

 

To paraphrase grampa Simpson, what I'm with isn't it anymore. Good.

[xtriple]

So sorry about you little mutt mate, dread the day...

[Billy - Medhurst]

Theres an abandoned sales pitch thats been slowly selling off stock for many years that has been on here before. I cant find my old thread but its Easilease near Swadlincote for those that know it. Looks like robbing gits have struck......

Before - 1991 ROVER 820 SI 1994cc AUTOMATIC H630YRA by JOHN, on Flickr

 

After - MAY 1991 ROVER 820 SI 1994cc AUTOMATIC H630YRA by JOHN, on Flickr

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Blimey. They'll probably clear a solid £8 for those sought-after rimz y0. Is that the last car left there?

[Billy - Medhurst]

3 Left

MAY 1991 ROVER 820 SI 1994cc AUTOMATIC H630YRA by JOHN, on Flickr

DECEMBER 1990 ROVER 1598cc MAESTRO CLUBMAN AUTOMATIC H93EEG by JOHN, on Flickr

AUGUST 1990 VAUXHALL 1388cc CAVALIER L H439CBM by JOHN, on Flickr

[xtriple]

Mmmmmm, grump? I met up with a chap I have not seen for a while today, been avoiding him because of his dog of all things, it's a big bouncy boisterous lab puppy, only its huge and fat (14 months old) but still thinks it's about the size of a lapdog. Anyway, this mutt (who is lovely to be fair) beat the shit out of Chester to the extent that he was hiding under the park bench I was sat on, growling his head off. It has affected his sorry excuse for a brain so badly that he is now a bit of a liability when ANY golden lab comes near him...

 

So this chap was grumbling at me that I'd been missing in action so I told him why.... and he got a bit humpy even though other people have told him the same. So, he started having a go at my car! Saying he thought it was a Rolls Royce and was disappointed when he just saw that it was only a Bentley and that if I worked really hard and saved up for ages I could get one of the new Bentleys...

 

Of course, I was not bothered by this (ha!) so showed him the picture of my cars identical twin parked next to an 05 Continental GT, both for sale and 'my' car up for £500 more than the CGT!  Then I went into my usual (and very boring) tirade/rant about why would I want a VW Phaeton W12 in a party frock? If I wanted a VW, I'd buy one and save a load of money but still have an utterly shit car that will break all the time and be crap....

 

The grump however is not the comments made by the bloke but the fact that I bit! So sad to be annoyed by a few comments that were designed to annoy me. I now feel like an utter twat (which I am but I try to hide it usually) and will probably end up apologising.

 

Feel free to tell me I'm a twat.

[Ghosty]

Did you speak to Francesca? She sounds gorgeous. 

 

Nobody yet guv, haven't got round to enquiries. Don't want the mother to hear what I'm up to 'cause she'll try and intervene.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Watching christine getting smashed to bits by the goons in darnells!! Still painful to think that was a real plymouth.

Not that sought after a car back then i know but a waste still..

 

Oh and xtriple proper bentleys>rebodied phaetons mate

[Brodders]

I may be missing some things here. Firstly, what is the story behind the abandoned sales pitch?

 

Secondly, what is this whole thing to do with sending Argos catalogs Jake?  

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Christine watching pedantry anyone else notice the us market mk2 cortina in the final scene

 

 

Also in the moochie death scene, Anyone else notice the dodge semi drives off down the road and just stops in the dark..

 

/Pedant

 

 

[jakebullet]

I may be missing some things here. Firstly, what is the story behind the abandoned sales pitch?

 

Secondly, what is this whole thing to do with sending Argos catalogs Jake?  

 

It's a petty revenge thing. As any fool kno, you can pretty much steal anything you like from ebay with ebay's blessing. When I get stolen from by a career thief they sometimes receive the argos treatment.

 

Wrap up an argos book and by accident forget to put a stamp on it. They then get a card to go pay to collect their parcel. Of course most of them won't, but that's ok 'cos you put another thief's address on the back, and royal mail will return it to thief 2. Thief 2 gets slowly driven mad by argos catalogues arriving in the mail.

[chaseracer]

I've not seen the result, and am being held to ransom thus have to take his word that it's not fitted correctly. I'm guessing he's cross threaded it at the start and numpty style tried to keep on forcing it and has torn up the thread. The pool ball dust he's created will then bind the thread.

 

The other idiot fail is I'll just tighten it another 3/4 turn > bang! hole in top of ball, n complaint that they hardly tightened it at all.

 

Do you drill/thread directly into the ball without a metal insert?  

 

Genuine question because curious 

[M'coli]

Insurance grumps: policy runs out midnight Tuesday-Wednesday, but insurers won't insure a new car from Saturday and instead will only put it on a new policy. Seeing as the rip-off shisters are wanting 20% more this year than last despite a doubling of my NCD, they can FRO, methinks.