The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

David Evans, brilliant sub-editor on Classic & Sportscar, has died of a heart attack at the age of 56.  He will be missed, not only for his manifest professional skills but as a tireless ambassador for chod (Citroen GSA/rusty BMW 2002) among the shiny six-figure trailer queens.

 

Top bloke to chat with, too.

 

Sleep easy, Dave...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Cunting postman.

 

So, a parcel containing some car bits needed for a job I'm doing Saturday was due to be delivered yesterday.

 

I'm out all day, yesterday.

 

So I leave a note on the door.

 

HEY WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE CUNTING POSTMAN

PLEASE LEAVE ANY SIGNED FOR PARCELS WITH THE POST OFFICE.

WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT FUCKING DOOR.

 

But no. Cunting postman leaves a fucking card saying it's been taken to the sorting office.

 

Which is fucking closed today because it's fucking easter and I wont be able to get out now till fucking Tuesday.

 

Doesn't matter as I've got other stuff to do. But if it was urgent, I'd be fucked.

 

But enjoy the wind and rain delivering letters for whatever derisory sum you get paid, cunt.

[captain_70s]

Paperwork says no m8

[sierraman]

I really don't know why I do holidays, the kids hate it due to the flight and the heat, getting on each others nerves etc.

[Pillock]

 He demonstrates his correctness by operating his right turn signal.the front one worked fine but the rear was blinking the other tucking way ! This was a brand new moped, a Sym I think, I guess the PDI check doesn't include indicator function.

 

I had exactly this happen yesterday.

I say exact thing, it was a car rather than a moped. And it was a Renault Clio which make it almost explicable.

But still, indicating left as I go to pass them on the motorway and then swerving in front of me was a bit but-clenchy!

 

Glad you and Mssr Moped are OK

[Jon]

David Evans, sub editor on Classic & Sports Car has died suddenly at the age of 56. Now, you might be thinking this is sod all to do with Autoshite, but David ran a GSA as his daily driver. While the magazine often focussed on the very top end of the market, David ensured that clubs were always represented. He found great joy in the smallest of reports, from the smallest of clubs

 

That's a real shame to hear - I used to enjoy his GSA updates and the seemingly never ending amount of wedge he'd ply it with in maintenance - not for financial gain in the car's value but simply because he really liked it.

 

Incidentally, I'm convinced that I first found out about Autoshite, when he made mention of it in one of his running reports, although I never found reference to it again, so maybe I just have an active imagination. Either way, I'll always link him and AS together.

[bramz7]

Don’t beat yourself up, chief, it could happen to most of us quite easily I reckon. You haven’t been stupid, perhaps a little naive, but like all lessons in life you’ll do well if you don’t repeat the bad ones.

Is there anyway you can link the seller, car or town it’s in? You never know someone might spot vehicle or vendor, or better still know who they are.

 

 

Incidentally, a (potentially) cheap motor turned up locally on Gumtree yesterday. The moron trying to pass it off as his own was incredibly stupid as they’d just copied and pasted the wording from eBay including the bit about bidding. Two minutes flat I’d found the original advert and told the seller, who’s now trying to contact the scammer.

 

 

I have news regarding said car, seller back in touch and says it will be MOT'd next week due to a garage mixup. Promising, but we shall see. 

[Des]

He demonstrates his correctness by operating his right turn signal.the front one worked fine but the rear was blinking the other tucking way 

 

 

Some years ago I was stuck for a car with a towbar, borrowed a friends Mondeo, drove all the way to Manchester when a helpful chap followed me into a services to advise the trailer indicators were similarly arseways. Mondeo was at fault. Lucky the trailer was empty on the way up so the cars indicators were visible but would have been fun had I been dragging some big old caravan.

[Parky]

I have news regarding said car, seller back in touch and says it will be MOT'd next week due to a garage mixup. Promising, but we shall see.

 

Garage mixup probably means he took it somewhere and they laughed him out of the building. He is now looking for the correct garage (i.e Helen Keller Motors) to see if he has more luck there

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

David Evans, brilliant sub-editor on Classic & Sportscar, has died of a heart attack at the age of 56.  He will be missed, not only for his manifest professional skills but as a tireless ambassador for chod (Citroen GSA/rusty BMW 2002) among the shiny six-figure trailer queens.

 

Top bloke to chat with, too.

 

Sleep easy, Dave...

 

 

You're shitting me?

 

I've known Dave 15 years or more - probably more from Haymarket in the mid 1990's but I knew him from many a BMW event. An incredibly intelligent, quiet and thoroughly knowledgeable bloke.

 

What a damned shame. 

[adw1977]

Cunting postman.

 

So, a parcel containing some car bits needed for a job I'm doing Saturday was due to be delivered yesterday.

 

I'm out all day, yesterday.

 

So I leave a note on the door.

 

HEY WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE CUNTING POSTMAN

PLEASE LEAVE ANY SIGNED FOR PARCELS WITH THE POST OFFICE.

WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT FUCKING DOOR.

 

But no. Cunting postman leaves a fucking card saying it's been taken to the sorting office.

 

There's a fee for collecting parcels that are addressed to your house from a post office.

 

What you can do for free is get the sender to address the parcel you c/o the post office - it's called Poste Restante

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/poste-restante

[Cheggers]

Man dies unexpectedly and the news is delivered here eloquently and with obvious genuine sadness.

 

A parcel isn't delivered and the poster feels it needs 10 expletives to express the gravity of the situation.

 

Since when did this place get so angry...?

 

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[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Notice thread title. 'Grumpy Old Man Thread'.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

There's a fee for collecting parcels that are addressed to your house from a post office.

 

What you can do for free is get the sender to address the parcel you c/o the post office - it's called Poste Restante

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/poste-restante

 

 

That's fine. But the Postie walks past the post office..........

 

It was sheer bloody mindedness. My neighbours are retired folk who are in all day. 

 

Oh well. Got another mighty task lined up for the weekend anyway. 

[Angrydicky]

 

Twat

[dave21478]

Generic Modern Car Rant, No. 137.......

 

Front end lighting. Why? Why are designers insisting on making cars LESS safe in the name of "safety"?

 

Ok, so daylight running lights are a pish idea, but they seem to be here to stay, but what is really chaffing my piss is indicators and the lack of standardisation. Some cars extinguish the DRL for the side indicating, some dont. Why? 

Some cars light the fog light when turning, some dont. Why?

Most cars have the indicator set deeply within the chrome monstrosity they call headlights. Why? 

 

Watching cars at a roundabout, waiting to join it and of those who could be arsed to indicate, which is a low number anyway, its genuinely distracting to see how different cars behave. Best of all where the unidentifiable Peugeots that when indicating left, put out the left DRL, but put on the left foglight, then as they exit they indicate right, the extinguished DRL switches sides and the lit foglight switches the opposite way. Add in cars with sequential indicator arrays and driving is like being in the front row of a Jean Michel Jarre concert.

At a junction you have a couple of seconds at best to interpret the intentions of oncoming cars, I just want a clearly visible flashing orange light, not six different Aldis lamps signalling to me in morse code Jesus fuck.

[Daviemck2006]

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Twat

A TWAT before he parked for having a bmw

 

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[Christine]

Price of a kids Easter eggs .. !  I bought Toblerone chocolate bars for presents  instead,  and they are much healthier ,  (I mean heavier     )

[Slowsilver]

 

Front end lighting. Why? Why are designers insisting on making cars LESS safe in the name of "safety"?

 

This.

Not just front end lighting.

If I understand correctly front DRLs are now compulsory, rear ones are illegal. So we now get prats who drive in the dark with christmas tree lights on the front and nothing on the rear. If we must have running lights why not just wire the existing side and rear lights to come on with the ignition? Cheap, easy and far more sensible.

Most front DRLs are stupid shapes just for styling* reasons and I think they look like cheap fairy lights. The only exception that comes to mind are the BMW "halo" ones surrounding the headlamps, which at least look as though they were actually designed in rather than added as an afterthought.

There also seems to a trend lately for tiny rear indicators or brake lights in stupid places. Who had the brilliant idea of putting small indicators right next to the brake lights, thus making the indicators invisible when braking. Some current models even have circular brake lights with the indicators in the middle, which is even worse.

I think there should be regulations specifying that the size of each type of light should be a minimum percentage of the front or rear area of the vehicle.

The latest VW Polo has stupidly small rear indicators right under the brake lights, but at least it's a small car.

Big Audis and even some HGVs have even smaller ones.

Once again progress* has fixed something that wasn't broken and managed to make it worse.

 

 

[mercrocker]

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Twat

 

Yes, he is.   BMW's getting a good hard stare from the Somerset, though.

[chaseracer]

BMW's getting a good hard stare from the Somerset, though.

 

"Bandit at twelve o'clock, Algy.  Tally-ho!"

 

[beko1987]

I find golf front indicators impossible to see. Guess what I nearly carved up on a roundabout earlier in the pissing rain... Sheepish wave and he didn't stick his fingers up at me, maybe he thinks the same about his indicators?

[Tamworthbay]

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Twat

Just park your scratch ridden old banger an inch from the drivers door. One of my guilty pleasures.........

[adw1977]

That's fine. But the Postie walks past the post office..........

 

It was sheer bloody mindedness. My neighbours are retired folk who are in all day.

 

Could equally be the post office staff being bloody minded and not wanting to take it?

 

Postman may just be covering his arse, if it's got to be signed for then whatever he does with it is going to get recorded, and there may be comeback on him if he doesn't follow the rules.

 

I understand that common sense says just leave it at the post office right next door, but Royal Mail is a separate company from Post Office Ltd.

[andy18s]

Are there photos of this fine vehicle within these beige walls?

I do have my eye on a couple for sale....

[myglaren]

David Evans, sub editor on Classic & Sports Car has died suddenly at the age of 56. Now, you might be thinking this is sod all to do with Autoshite, but David ran a GSA as his daily driver. While the magazine often focussed on the very top end of the market, David ensured that clubs were always represented. He found great joy in the smallest of reports, from the smallest of clubs. I've had many pleasant conversations with David over the years. He was a top bloke - a slightly square peg in the round hole of C&SC who somehow managed to keep working there for many years - I think it's about 13 years since I sent in my first club report (before I became a journo myself) on a 2CV run. He loved a photo Mrs DW had taken of some dalmatians in a 2CV.

 

I'm quite stunned to be honest. He was such a nice chap. Only sent in another 2CVGB report a fortnight ago, just like old times. He will definitely be missed.

Have pinched this and posted on the FCF Ian, as you rarely visit.

Hope you don't mind and will delete if you have any objections.

[iainrcz]

I feel absolutely shite.

 

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[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Could equally be the post office staff being bloody minded and not wanting to take it?

 

Postman may just be covering his arse, if it's got to be signed for then whatever he does with it is going to get recorded, and there may be comeback on him if he doesn't follow the rules.

 

I understand that common sense says just leave it at the post office right next door, but Royal Mail is a separate company from Post Office Ltd.

 

 

No, they know me. They're really laid back and take all my Parcelforce stuff even if it's a bit...er...big or heavy. The regular Postie drops stuff off but Thursday is his day off. 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Have pinched this and posted on the FCF Ian, as you rarely visit.

Hope you don't mind and will delete if you have any objections.

 

It was mentioned  page or two ago here, but it's worth repeating. He was definitely one of us.

[Cavcraft]

The idea the headlight now turns itself off to illuminate the indicator is, quite frankly, fucking ridiculous. Just have them separate like the glory days.