The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

Some roads are pretty stuck-up from day one though. Ours has a specific term in the freehold that means you can't have a white van, on the driveway or on the road.

We've had shit like this before. It maybe written on a bit of paper but who's to enforce it? That's right, no one.

[captain_70s]

I'm surprised none of my neighbours have moaned about me taking up multiple spaces on the street, although I imagine a lot of them don't have cars anyway. one end of my street is narrower than the other but it doesn't stop people parking on it, causing a fire engine to get stuck the other day. Not surprised sometimes it's hard to squeeze the Civic through ffs...

 

I quite frequently have to park a street or two away from the flat as a lot of my area was built between 1900-1940 and has fairly little provision for cars and what free space there was has been filled with dense housing with even less provision...

[dozeydustman]

Sometimes I think families were are the worst thing ever.

 

 

I agree, but thankfully in my case not with our immediate families (parents, kids, siblings, in-laws), our problem lies with the extended family members. Some of my cousins, and some of Mrs D's cousins, are genuinely horrible people who I'd not piss on if they were on fire. I'm not going to digress here but as far as I'm concerned 3 of my 7 cousins can just piss off!

[mercrocker]

I just dont understand the whole "parking outside my house" mentality. I remember years back I drove round to a mates house in Aberdeen and parked in the street. I was just stopping a few minutes while he came out the house, but I had barely got the hand brake on and switched the engine off when a knuckle-dragger from the house next door ran out and started banging on the window and screaming at me hard enough to cover the window in flecks of spit...."fucking fuck off fucking parking outside MY fucking house you fucking cunt ill fucking kill you fuck off...." etc. For internet hard-man points I would like to say I got out and decked him but he was about six foot seven and built like Thor so I meekly drove off and parked round the corner. World is full of nutters.

 

Almost makes you want to buy a shitter, register it in their name and address and leave that there instead......

[320touring]

We stay on a private street, so I do actually own the road outside my house..

 

However we're all decent folks here ,so no " that's MY space" Cuntery.

 

At the end of the day there are much more important things to concern yourself with.

[dozeydustman]

Thomas the Tank is now extremely politically correct in CGI, though they don't seem to call the Fat Controller anymore, he is most probably called the Big but Beautiful Controller or the Slow Metabolism Sufferer Controller.

 

 

Sir Topham Hatt. Was his name all the time, but known as the Fat Director/Controller of the main Sodor railway, with the Thin Controller and the small controller managing the other railways on Sodor.

 

Oh dear. I've not watched or read Thomas since I was around 8, so mid 1980's. I only remember things like that 'cos I speshall.

[Snipes]

We stay on a private street, so I do actually own the road outside my house..

 

However we're all decent folks here ,so no " that's MY space" Cuntery.

 

At the end of the day there are much more important things to concern yourself with.

 

Nobody owns the road outside of their house, although IIRC amusingly you are obliged to maintain the pavement outside of it .

[dozeydustman]

I didn't grump on Friday about my journey to Planet Thanet with my good lady for a dirty weekend her birthday.

 

Accident on the M25 clockwise between J5 & Clackett Lane services. The anticlockwise carriageway (which we were on) ground to a halt because of rubberneckers slowing down to have a look at what had happened.

 

Can't they put an 8 ft high concrete wall in the central reservation to stop this?

[Timewaster]

I didn't grump on Friday about my journey to Planet Thanet with my good lady for a dirty weekend her birthday.

 

Accident on the M25 clockwise between J5 & Clackett Lane services. The anticlockwise carriageway (which we were on) ground to a halt because of rubberneckers slowing down to have a look at what had happened.

 

Can't they put an 8 ft high concrete wall in the central reservation to stop this?

You are Donald Trump and I claim my five pounds.

[Isaac Hunt]

The 'five minute job' that takes most of the day to make little progress.

 

Daughter asked me to top up he washer bottle on her Fester. I thinks (but didn't say owt) blimey you rinse through that stuff.

 

Popped the cap and merrily pouring in the water 'woahah' we have an overflower. It's not any empty bottle then.

 

I check, no squib. Carefully pipers off a feed to a jet, no squib.

 

Disnone ting wires to monitor and they come apart in my hand, FFS.

 

Liberate motor and observe the connector has OVLOV written on it. Hang on, we signed up to Henry's American Dream not some Swedish shite. Someone's been at this before cos the wires have been cut and joined with crimp on bullets. The wire going into the moulted plug has broken right where it enters the mounded bit. No prob, I can fix that with a new bit of wire and some Araldite Plastic. Strip back the moulding and test the motor on a battery, no spin.

 

Motor is fubared, connector is fubbared, wiring is fubard.

 

Off the the scrap yard I go. I arrive just as they are closing. FFS, I thought I had a hour, swear they have changed closing time.

 

So it will have to wait till next weekend. Good job the washers did there last 'workings' for the MOT a few days ago innit.

[sierraman]

I just dont understand the whole "parking outside my house" mentality. I remember years back I drove round to a mates house in Aberdeen and parked in the street. I was just stopping a few minutes while he came out the house, but I had barely got the hand brake on and switched the engine off when a knuckle-dragger from the house next door ran out and started banging on the window and screaming at me hard enough to cover the window in flecks of spit...."fucking fuck off fucking parking outside MY fucking house you fucking cunt ill fucking kill you fuck off...." etc. For internet hard-man points I would like to say I got out and decked him but he was about six foot seven and built like Thor so I meekly drove off and parked round the corner. World is full of nutters.

You obviously understand the concept you don't own the pavement outside your house. I'm afraid you are in the minority these days.

[Pillock]

I accept that I don't own the space outside my terraced house.... and in fact we're lucky enough that next door is a detached bungalow with a driveway so we park another car outside their house usually. Sometimes we're a bit further away, sometimes on the next street. We're on the end of a run of 8 houses but three of those don't have any cars, and next door's wife has just left him and taken the car so he's just down to the one work van now.

 

What is piss-boiling though, is that there's a new couple moved in a few houses up. She can't park for toffee so deliberately leaves six foot in front of her Fiesta and six foot behind it. Quite often this displaces other cars down the road until I can't park even though there's the same number of cars there always is.

[320touring]

Nobody owns the road outside of their house, although IIRC amusingly you are obliged to maintain the pavement outside of it .

Funny that, as I have a title deed for it.. but nevermind.

 

The key thing is not to be self entitled and cunty:)

[dollywobbler]

Seem to have what I was hoping to be a peaceful night of window shopping on Bulgarian websites ruined because people on the internet can't play nicely. Ugh. 

[timolloyd]

We've had shit like this before. It maybe written on a bit of paper but who's to enforce it? That's right, no one.

 

Quite agree, it wouldn't stop me buying/running one if I needed it. It made me laugh, thinking about this clause, as I turned in to the drive on day 1 of living there, in my distinctly claggy and battered 205. Bet the neighbours would have preferred a van!

[MarvinsMom]

Almost a stinker with a criminal record if it had gone the wrong way. Only need to be unlucky once.

one problem with that,  they have to catch you first.....

 

see this cunt had managed to piss the whole street off in no time at all. the coupe de grace been when he was caught in bed with the wife of another fire man, who was on the SAME watch as him.

 

beady eyed twat got such a beating from his other fireman collegues that in put him in hospital. for a fortnight. and i had my back window broken cos the fuckin' fireman couldn't count how many doors down the street they needed to go down to get to his house. the guy responsible did later fess up in the pub after a few drinks. which was something, at least he was man enough to do so!

 

after than, the fire brigade moved him from redcar station to southbank, and then after doing the same thing, he was moved to billingham. quiet where the wanker is now (dead i hope) i neither know nor care about. the fire brigade, like doctors cannot sack their problem staff, but can move them on so that they become someone elses problem.

 

and as our houses have a small walled yard with an alley, no one would have been able to prove anything.

 

gived said wankers history, po-po will have told him to fuck off

[Pillock]

I'd be hoping it's more the moral aspect of killing someone's pet dog that makes it wrong, rather than the risk of getting caught.

[Zelandeth]

Oh shit, nearly forgot my grump.

 

Washing machine has got a bit noisy recently, sounds like a bearing has let go so the drum is catching on the tub or the whole lot is bashing around so much it's smacking the life out of the dampers. It's an impact noise, once per revolution rather than a grinding noise. You can hear it from outside the house when you're walking down the street it's that loud.... but as Mrs_Pillock has just started working for a large orange supermarket that has bought a large catalogue based retailer we were waiting for her discount card to come through.

 

Got a notification last night, I've got a water sensor under the sink and it pinged up to say something was leaking. Yup, the washing machine has shat itself and is merrily emptying itself onto the floor rather than out the waste pipe.

 

Tipped it up and there's water coming from the drain hose out the bottom of the tub that goes to the pump, and it's splashing everywhere so it looks like it's coming out under pressure. Best guess is that the tub bashing around so much has torn a hose or loosened a connection.

 

I could probably fix it, but now there's two faults - water pissing out, and whatever the original fault was that is causing the noise. It's only an Indesit and it was only £230 about 5 years ago so fuck it..... didn't really want to spend the day in Currys but oh well.

Sadly it sounds like the spider (the plate at the back that attaches the drum to the spindle) has broken. They're usually just made of aluminium these days, and they essentially dissolve over time.

 

The plate is usually triangular, with an attachment point to the drum at each tip - it's one of these that has most likely come away. Beyond economic repair as you'd need to replace the whole drum assembly.

 

The bearings often as not outlast the structural components in washing machines these days!

[MarvinsMom]

I'd be hoping it's more the moral aspect of killing someone's pet dog that makes it wrong, rather than the risk of getting caught.

try living next to two of the little shits, that bark for 12-15 hours a day.

 

day in, and day out.

 

car drives past? bark, bark, bark....

 

bird flys over the yard? bark, bark, bark....

 

bin men collecting wheeley bins or the sun shining outside? yep, you guessed right, bark, bark, bark fucking bark.

 

in and out, again, and again, and again and again.

 

then you will think differently.

 

belive me.

[Pillock]

No, I'd probably talk to the owners first, and then get the council involved if that didn't work. Fuck, I'd probably move house before killing someone's dog.

[The Moog]

Seem to have what I was hoping to be a peaceful night of window shopping on Bulgarian websites ruined because people on the internet can't play nicely. Ugh.

Can't Wartburg's calm them? Or are they beyond help?

[Pillock]

Sadly it sounds like the spider (the plate at the back that attaches the drum to the spindle) has broken. They're usually just made of aluminium these days, and they essentially dissolve over time.

 

The plate is usually triangular, with an attachment point to the drum at each tip - it's one of these that has most likely come away. Beyond economic repair as you'd need to replace the whole drum assembly.

 

The bearings often as not outlast the structural components in washing machines these days!

 

I shall find out soon, as the drum is coming out to make a firepit before the rest goes up to the tip.

I say the rest, I might try and flog the motor and control panel on ebay. Got some PCBs from the old hob to list too, they're immaculate.

 

What made me think it was the bearings is that there was a lot of lateral movement in use, and the belt wasn't sitting in the middle of the large pulley on the back of the drum - almost like it had dropped somewhat and moved out of line (like if the bearings go in an alternator and the pulley no longer sits square)

The spider breaking sounds like it would have the same effect.

[SiC]

Can't Wartburg's calm them? Or are they beyond help?

No need to go to Bulgaria to buy a Wartburg. Not when my favourite saved eBay seller has imported another (what looks like a) minter one recently. Unfortunately it's the later VW 1.3 4-stroke engine, not the original 2 stroke lump.

 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192518048655

[MarvinsMom]

No, I'd probably talk to the owners first, and then get the council involved if that didn't work. Fuck, I'd probably move house before killing someone's dog.

1) he was manc scum who "knew his rites" and "fuck off i can do what i want/when i want how i want in my house and fuck the rest of you even ifit is ruining you life" type who couldn't and didn't give a shit about anyone but himself.

2)tried that, as did the elderly couple who lived the otherside to said cuntstick, and guess what, they did less than shit all. sent him a couple of letters that if anything made said twat behave even worse.

3) glad you would sooner move, but i own my house (without mortgage) that i have worked hard for. no foriegn holidays, shitty old second hand car and elderly mobile telephone all been some of the things i gave up so that i could pay off the mortgage. plus my home town is where i have lived for all but 3 of my 44 years. and selling a house when there are issues with the clever cunt of a neighbour is not something i would want to do.

 

so you are a better* person than me, good* for you......

[Wack]

I was a bit gobsmacked by this story from York

 

Short version

Guy nicks a bike, advertises it on Facebook , woman owner spots ad , reports it , female police officer goes to arrest him. guy grabs her by the throat and pins her to a wall

 

Gets found guilty of theft and assaulting a police officer

 

Sentence should be deportation to somewhere really shit but

 

Fine £240

Compo for the cop £100

Court costs £85

 

Bike was never recovered , the grand sum of fuck all awarded to the victim

 

So I read this as victim does her own detective work and everybody gets a payout except her , WTF is going on in this fucking country , when I say payout it's pretty obvious nobody is getting any money so basically he gets to just walk away

 

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16170820.Stolen_bike_sold_through_Facebook/

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I accept that I don't own the space outside my terraced house.... and in fact we're lucky enough that next door is a detached bungalow with a driveway so we park another car outside their house usually. Sometimes we're a bit further away, sometimes on the next street. We're on the end of a run of 8 houses but three of those don't have any cars, and next door's wife has just left him and taken the car so he's just down to the one work van now.

 

What is piss-boiling though, is that there's a new couple moved in a few houses up. She can't park for toffee so deliberately leaves six foot in front of her Fiesta and six foot behind it. Quite often this displaces other cars down the road until I can't park even though there's the same number of cars there always is.

 

I used to live in a flat with parking for seven cars behind.  Seven flats.  I had a car (two cars at one point) and two of the flats didn't have a car.  There ended up being exactly seven cars, which shouldn't have been a problem.

 

Except for the knob upstairs.  He couldn't park his Touraeg for love nor money.  There were separate, rented garages in the car park too and he would frequently park at the end, blocking the end garage.  The problem was that I used to park at the end and he did block me in more than once because it was all a bit tight.  Eventually the landlord gave him a bollocking and he stopped doing that because garage tenants started complaining that they couldn't get into their garages.  There were a few times that I nearly 'accidentally' backed into him because of his shit parking.  He did actually get keyed by somebody (not me, I'd never sink that low) but I can't say I was surprised.  Probably happened to him at work, if he did that sort of thing there too.

 

What a complete knob he was.

[wuvvum]

Took the Innocenti out for a brief spin around the block earlier in honour of Drive It Day.  First time it'd been out in months - in fact first time I'd started it in over a month.  It fired up after a bit of cranking, as it always does, but the clutch is now slipping quite badly under hard acceleration (and those of you who have driven the car will attest that hard acceleration in the Innocenti is at best a relative concept).  I have no idea why it's suddenly started doing this - there was no sign of slippage last time I drove the car.  The clutch makes a squealing noise when it slips, which is not something I've had before.  It really is quite odd.  I hope it isn't new clutch time as I have no fugging idea what they nicked the clutch off for these.

[BorniteIdentity]

Took the Innocenti out for a brief spin around the block earlier in honour of Drive It Day.  First time it'd been out in months - in fact first time I'd started it in over a month.  It fired up after a bit of cranking, as it always does, but the clutch is now slipping quite badly under hard acceleration (and those of you who have driven the car will attest that hard acceleration in the Innocenti is at best a relative concept).  I have no idea why it's suddenly started doing this - there was no sign of slippage last time I drove the car.  The clutch makes a squealing noise when it slips, which is not something I've had before.  It really is quite odd.  I hope it isn't new clutch time as I have no fugging idea what they nicked the clutch off for these.

 

I was starting to think you'd sold it!  I still have naughty thoughts about it, so don't go hastily selling it or owt!

 

Could it be a leak onto the clutch?  We had this with the Sierra for a while - and then it suddenly just stopped.  

[nigel bickle]

Bit of rust on the plates? Polish off, with use, perhaps?

[tooSavvy]

Saturday night, 8:45 gets a bang-bang on the front door.

 

Traipses to door, opens a smidge, bloke standing there - big blokey smile - "Hi, m8. This your car?".

 

I imagine *good news - like he has reversed into it

 

He continues... "I have my car, its been stuck at the end of the street all day.. you having this 'sporty looking' one & I thought you would have some Jump Leads?"

 

I told him I had no leads and I was dressed for bed (dressing gown on!!)

 

Shut the door.....