The grumpy thread

[mercrocker]

Reading the last couple of pages on here makes me think the whole bunch of us ought to fuck off to an island and start our own republic. 

 

 Angrydicky - is the bloke who sold you the Standard the same cunt who sold the original numberplate?   I would certainly be asking him that instead of bothering to tell him why you painted your own fucking car. 

[DodgeRover]

Hmm. I could try, but I don't particularly like the sound of my own voice, and I don't have a beard worth mentioning! I do have a channel (same as my username) but I haven't updated it in years.

Nobody with less than a full on God complex likes the sound of their own voice when they hear it back. It'll sound fine in your own head when you do it.

[Cavcraft]

Taylor getting his arse handed to him on a plate in the darts. Cross is a brilliant player and deserves to win, but I'd love to see Taylor take one last title.

[Paul Dupart]

Yep, pretty much agree with all you've said...

[puddlethumper]

My grump seems very small in comparison to those above.

 

Three stop solenoids in less than three months Ffs !

 

First lasted all of three days. Second, four weeks. Third, six weeks and decided to give up as I was leaving Weymouth to go home. Had to get the spanners out, 13 mm, 11 mm, allen key and screwdriver, in a handy layby, a rare commodity.

Got it down to about 12 mins now. Another one or two and I'll easily get sub 11's.

[eddyramrod]

Tip: try Christmas in the sun; Cyprus for example.  You still get the tinsel and shit but it's lower-key and if you're in a hotel you've got all your catering done for you.  Plus you can get out and about and see some attractions, or if you prefer, loll about in the hotel lounge and soak up the ouzo.  Nobody will blame you either way.

[purplebargeken]

Same here Jo, 100%. Literally just another day but with slightly nicer food. 

[beko1987]

Seems I fell asleep putting the kids to bed at 7.30 and it's now half 10. Annoying, I had an evening of sitting on the sofa being a fat lazy cunt planned. Oh well, I'll do the same but in bed now

[Lord Sterling]

...stuff about Christmas...

Sounds like someone needs a big pint of chillout stout.

 

Holidays are supposed to be that. A time to do what you want with whomever you want (provided they feel the same)

 

I don't celebrate Christmas for obvious reasons but I do know that Christmas was once a religious time for giving and receiving, spending time with your loved ones etc... Now its been massively over commercialised with everyone trying to out do each other. Going back to basics isn't hard, but everyone feels the need to compete.

 

Why get caught up with everyone else who stresses over Chrimbo/Easter/whatever? Can't be arsed to put decorations up? Then don't. Bored? Go and spend time with your old'uns or some friends. TV shit? Get a few of your fave DVDs in or try a hobby. It isn't hard, people are just too hard-wired into thinking they must be stressed out in order to look like they're trying hard or whatever.

[The Moog]

And moved to GOM thread

[chodweaver]

I find it difficult to balance the pushes and pulls of the season. I want it to be winter wonderland, warming log fires, gifts as tokens of love and friendship and savouring home cooked food but it too easily ends up being wet and windy with long stressful journeys in overloaded vehicles to sleep in unfamiliar, uncomfortable beds, nursing indigestion, forcing friendliness and being bored waiting for the holidays to end so I can ... what?... go back to work. Wtf.

 

I have Mrs CW to thank for rescuing this hopeless situation - she dispatches the expectations of Christmas a fortnight before, visiting her parents (mine are long gone) and delivering or posting the presents she feels she has to give. Then we go away for Christmas. If CW Juniors 1 and 2 want to join us, they can. This year one played host - we went to his house, while the other wanted a quiet Christmas and stayed home. We bought only the food we fancied, cooked it when we wanted it. Did the presents between us when we wanted (as soon as we arrived) and went out to the cinema to catch the new releases we'd agreed on (no sickening festive movies). We stayed up very late playing old video games and drank the odd bottle of cider. I took long walks with the dogs on the beach (I'm used to shit weather when it comes to this) and read books I've been meaning to read.

There was no partying. No churchgoing. And definitely no TV. I was sad to have to come back home.

 

Experiment! When i first met Mrs CW she was extolling the virtues of spending Christmas on her own, when everyone around her was calling 'Scrooge!' and planning big parties and lots of arguing and vomiting. I took her side. Both of us coming from big families, we've had many years of doing everything that was expected of us at Christmas, and yes, much if it was crap.

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Do we have a GOW thread? if not its still in the wrong section?

 

Could be read as the Grumpy Old Members thread?

[dollywobbler]

This is the result of 4 hours of work.

 

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I will get the Datsun home this year.

 

 

I did manage to get these up at last though;

 

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If it makes you feel better, I started tidying my garage up last year, and it's still not finished.

[Guest Hooli]

https://www.shewee.com/

 

Just saying...

[Guest Hooli]

If you produce ATF, I'd see a Dr.

[Cavcraft]

If you're not a massive fan of Christmas, just go out most Saturday nights and get as pissed as possible. That way you'll have 40 odd celebrations per year, instead of one. It's great fun, can't recommend it highly enough.

[cobblers]

You can extrapolate the above to 365 days a year if you're dedicated enough.

[The Moog]

Do we have a GOW thread? if not its still in the wrong section?

We dont. 

 

Grumpy old man is a mindset not a descriptor of the person posting.

 

We all know what a grumpy old man is like, mumbling about the world, how it was better in his day, how everyone else makes mistakes but he is perfect, how he could sort the world out if he was given half an hour in the PM role, before going back to his half pint of mild that he has nursed for 2 hours hoping someone else will offer him a beer. 

 

Thats this thread. 

 

And being the cantankerous bunch we are, it has got over 3 million views with 70k posts and gone on for ten years. Second in the all time thread count.  Happiness thread has got only 2 m views with about half the posts. 

 

This is the containment area for all the grumps, so that we can have happiness elsewhere (in theory) 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Ex-UK RHD cars re-registered on Romanian / Bulgarian / Hungarian / Polish plates so that their UK-resident owners can evade VED, MoT, UK insurance, ANPR, etc

[beko1987]

I've not written anything for nearly 2 weeks, I've forgotten how to write!

[tooSavvy]

I've not written anything for nearly 2 weeks, I've forgotten how to write!

... you could offer me lessons!

 

 

TS

[Wack]

If you're not a massive fan of Christmas, just go out most Saturday nights and get as pissed as possible. That way you'll have 40 odd celebrations per year, instead of one. It's great fun, can't recommend it highly enough.

 

 

Can you post about the Sunday morning experience as well , in the interests of balance

[andy18s]

Ex-UK RHD cars re-registered on Romanian / Bulgarian / Hungarian / Polish plates so that their UK-resident owners can evade VED, MoT, UK insurance, ANPR, etc

[andy18s]

They still have to pay their own countries insurance/ vignette ect

The fact that those cost vastly more for a UK car owner is down to the UK...

Plus being part of the EU means drivers can be pursued for fines ect pretty much anywhere

That will only change if someone does something stupid,like vote to leave the EU..

[Cavcraft]

Can you post about the Sunday morning experience as well , in the interests of balance

It’s all good. The ‘Chester triathlon’ sorts out the worst hangover: 4 mile dog walk, 6 mile cycle and an hour in the bath, agreeing to buy cars over the Internet.

Eat, scrap, rave repeat.

[eddyramrod]

 an hour in the bath, 

Only an hour?  Bloody amateurs!

 

You'll tell me next you don't take a good book and a cup of coffee in with you....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

They still have to pay their own countries insurance/ vignette ect

The fact that those cost vastly more for a UK car owner is down to the UK...

Plus being part of the EU means drivers can be pursued for fines ect pretty much anywhere

That will only change if someone does something stupid,like vote to leave the EU..

I wouldn't be so grumpy about this if our lot actually enforced the rules.

[DVee8]

 

Clearly Roy Wood should of been sectioned under The Mental Health Act back in 73......................

Roy Wood will be sitting waiting for the royalty cheque to drop through the letterbox.Listening to a radio program driving home from work one night. Roy and Noddy should be in for half a mill..

[Cavcraft]

Only an hour? Bloody amateurs!

 

You'll tell me next you don't take a good book and a cup of coffee in with you....

Coffee is vile, but 100% on the books. Can’t beat an early spring or summer morning, window partially open with sun and bird song streaming through and a bloody good book to get lost in.

[John F]

A good mate died over the weekend, still in his 50s too. Both of his parents outlived him.

 

Gutted.