The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

Ok, don't kill off that section but perhaps consider not having it as completely open. Clearly some topics just split opinion too strongly. It's ridiculous that we lose members over non-car stuff.

[warren t claim]

Or maybe just let people be adults and if they see something that they disagree with then understand that everybody is entitled to have a different opinion?

[puddlethumper]

Had to get a new stop solenoid 3 weeks ago. How long did it last ? A bloody week !!

Bought another one. How long did it last ? Two bloody weeks !!

 

FFS!! Are they all made in the Peoples Republic of Crap ? GRRRRRR!!!!!

[Ghosty]

I'm going to say again: there should be a no politics rule.

[Frogchod]

Dave numbers going green puts me in a grump.

If you're still reading Dave, don't give up on the majority of us.

I for one thoroughly enjoy your contributions.

Take a break for a bit, but do please return.

[Guest Hooli]

yeah Davenumbers was an interesting poster

[richardmorris]

I wondered why he was Green. Is that a traffic light warning?

[Ghosty]

It seems to be people that have left of their own accord but not been banned (a bit like how the old watanabe account shows up as 'guest_*_' or something which is presumably a relic of old board software). EssDeeWon has gone green too but did it on the quiet.

[Guest Hooli]

I think it's when you delete your account somehow.

[The Moog]

Green means email needs validating. So is email is deleted I suppose to avoid getting messages or alerts.

[richardmorris]

You’re green too! Albeit not the same shade

[DodgeRover]

I like the open section, there's such a cross section of topics in there, I mean how many other forums would you find internet dating tips, how to become a slum landlord and fun with firearms ( to name but a few) on the same page?

 

I can understand people getting worked up over things but I thought by and large in the most recent politics or what's wrong with politics thread it was all refreshingly civil with little name calling or personal stuff.

[Captain Furious]

To be honest it was all going along quite civilly in the death penalty thread too, until Dave came along calling us all deranged psychos and lunatics.

[Guest Hooli]

And LP getting on his usual hobby horse.

[purplebargeken]

I actually had to wear a coat today. 

 

It was most disconcerting. I usually just have my winter and summer T shirts. Anything additional is just fucking weird.

[twosmoke300]

And LP getting on his usual hobby horse.

Same horse every time too

[Jazoli]

Fuck them, if someone wants a flounce let them, its hardly the end of the world 

[wuvvum]

Currently on hold to the old bill as someone has nicked the number plates off the Golf.  Or at least they've nicked the front and most of the back.  Don't know if it's just petty vandalism or something more nefarious, but think I'd better report it to be on the safe side.  Just what I needed.

[purplebargeken]

Not sure I would actually be physically able to flounce.

 

Anyway...... Today I was at the lock up. I was clearing out the garage that contains the Toedlo with the TR7 engine. All good so far. I was also clearing out the Rover 75 parts that filled the i10 to the gills. Still good.

 

The 340 was about to be viewed by a forum member who likes the idea of it.

 

All going really rather well.

 

Now, the place where the lock up is located is a yard/carpark space which serves two blocks of non-highrise flats. There are very large communal bins, well four of them. They are rather full. Smelly too.

 

I realised that I could not find the keys to the i10. I looked and looked, so did my mate. Nothing. Zilch. It was getting darker and the clouds were getting thicker and darker too. Keys were nowhere to be found.

 

I realised that I may have inadvertently thrown the keys in the bin with my rubbish. Cue me searching through the bins, not happy and having to grit my teeth.

 

I thought.... one more quick look in the car before I start emptying the fucking huge bins.

 

Lo and behold. There were the keys. 

 

I'd looked there and so had my mate. WTF? 

 

I went and bought 20l of bleach to bathe in. 

 

However, I saw a Citroen C5 operate it's suspension trickery. That made me happy

[Guest Hooli]

Sorry Ken but that made me laugh.

[3VOM]

Currently on hold to the old bill as someone has nicked the number plates off the Golf.  Or at least they've nicked the front and most of the back.  Don't know if it's just petty vandalism or something more nefarious, but think I'd better report it to be on the safe side.  Just what I needed.

You've possibly just bought £100 of diesel and driven off without paying.

You are doing the right thing reporting it.

[strangeangel]

Fuck them, if someone wants a flounce let them, its hardly the end of the world 

 

It's a shame when someone who actually posts interesting stuff goes, though. Did you read Dave_numberz' thread about his DIY head skim on that manky pick-up thing he owns? Top drawer shiting, that is. Now compare that with the shit posted by the half-a-dozen or so blowhards who come out of the woodwork every time there's a thread to ruin in the open forum.

 

And, as Dave correctly posited, these same people are the ones who never post anything about cars (or mopeds, or tractors, or stationary engines, or anything that's actually shite related). I know who I'd rather be rid of, thanks.

[chaseracer]

And converting the MGF to LHD, having driven it from Geordieland to the south of France?  Proper shiting.

[Jazoli]

It is a shame to lose knowledge and members but if someone can't just ignore stuff they are not interested in, or agree that others may have views different to theirs maybe reading a forum that is open to all is not the best place for them, and flouncing just makes you look silly, because no-one really cares anyway.

 

I post very little about shit as I don't really own any but its still interesting to read others stories and tales of woe, this place will never end up like the utter wanker infested pistonheads (I'm also on there but only post in the BB bit) the rest makes my head want to explode, but I don't flounce and leave the site because of all the other shit that is on there as I have some good mates on there, its called having a sense of perspective.

[strangeangel]

In the main I like the open forum - it allows space for people to post stuff about old tools, lawn mowers, obsolete stereos, shit computers, vacuum cleaners etc - all the sort of things that are in keeping with the AS ethos. The anorak thread is inspired, too - some excellent collecting habits have been 'fessed up to in there.

 

But, FWIW, I think Max is right - let's fuck the religion and politics off. AS will be all the better for it.

[BavarianRetro]

The moderation of it is a total fucking joke.

 

The UK politics thread was interesting and good humored with some intelligent, well informed discussion in with the bollocks - locked for no reason I can think of.

 

The "Shameless Cars and Girls" thread doesn't upset or offend me, but, FFS even the Sun has realised that that stuff - and some of it was more "Knave Readers' Wives" than "The Sun" - is not appropriate nowadays, yet it lives?

 

Embarrassing rather than offensive.

 

Leave the Open Forum alone. Completely unmoderated. If people don't like it, they can ignore it.

[The Moog]

Puma has started grinding turning left.

 

Which is going to be fun trying to fix tomorrow in the slush outside. Fuck sticks

[BorniteIdentity]

no, I am talking about the entire fucking forum and the dross its full of.

 

Its like your favourite pub. You go there a lot, you know the regulars and the regulars know you. Shared interests and common outlooks on life mean easy conversations flow on all manner of topics. Its comfy.

 

But it changes. There is no one event that causes it, and its not a sudden thing - its a slow, creeping and unstoppable change. One day you look around the bar and realise that the people you are interested in listening to, the people you can be bothered conversing with have reduced in number, with the old faces not showing up as often as they used to. Those that are left are slowly drowned out by aggressively arrogant arseholes, smug "better than you" cunts and tedious facebook wankers.

You catch sight of yourself in the mirror behind the optics and see that you have changed too....times change and people move on.

So you down the last of your pint, place your glass in the bar and walk out the door. You might look in from time to time in the future to see if things go back to the way they were, but you dont hold out much hope.

 

This is me finishing my pint.

See ya.

 

Kbai

[warren t claim]

I can't believe my innocent thread about a popular subject for debate can cause so many problems. I happily set out my own point of view in the opening post knowing that others will have a different view and wasn't offended when others expressed a different opinion.

[strangeangel]

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Kbai

 

Oh, the irony. How many times is it now that you've flounced - remind me? And yet, sadly, you're still here.