The grumpy thread

[AMC Rebel]

I am concerned that almost everything and everyone is irritating to me - I am starting to think it really is me.

[chodweaver]

If it really is you, then it's me too.

[Wack]

What a fucking wanker

 

[MarvinsMom]

i would never, ever use Kwikfit, unless desparate

 

was in there a few years ago when driving a company car, cos that was the only place that the lease lot had a contract with.

 

and every poor sod that came through the door "needed" either 2 or 4 tyres as a minimum. one poor woman came in with a flat and was in tears cos the fitter bloke was insistant that the car simply must have 4 new tyres.

 

now ok, i didn't go and look myself, and ome people don't bother with their cars, so prehaps it did have 4 bald tyres,

 

or, maybe they were taking advantage of a woman on her own to stick her for 4 new tyres no matter what.....

 

funny they didn't try that with me, cos unless the tyres were like slick, the feckin' lease company didn't want to know, and certainly would'nt pay for any new tyres.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

218 miles of good driving today.  Shropshire to Kent, easy job.  Apart from two things:

 

i)  My shoulder (dodgy to start with) is now playing up again.

 

ii)  The Costa drive-through employee in Northampton Services at 11.40 AM that decided to add to my order and try and pocket the difference.  Fortunately I caught him out.

[HillmanImp]

Decided I fancied a came of Wipeout (Playstation game, not shit gameshow presented by a smug midget) so started combing ebay looking for a PS1. I gave my old one to a mate a few years ago as I barely used it anymore. He was bang into Wipeout. I remember when he finished the game he then gave himself the task of finishing the whole game without touching the sides. As in if he did touch the sides he has to start from the 1st track again.

 

He did it. He also smoked a lot of weed whilst doing so.

 

Anyhow, I digress. I then found out that you can get Wipeout on the PS4 which is compatible with a Virtual Reality headset for maximum motion sickness fun. Cue much excitement. This is something that 20yr old me would've wet my pants over. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Zawka93T4

 

However it's gonna be about £500 and for one game and I'm having trouble justifying it. 

 

But it looks friggin' amazing. 

[Guest Hooli]

I've been properly surprised by the prices of cruises, now that Chodweaver Jr #1 works on them, I tend to look at the cost - granted that you can spend a lot more on the drinks packages, special events, in-port trips and food upgrades but still, $778 for 13 nights/14 days from Southampton to Miami via Boston, New York and Port Canaveral (not including the flight back) sounds alright...

 

Works out cheaper than an equal quality hotel with free* travel thrown in from what I've seen.

[Wack]

218 miles of good driving today.  Shropshire to Kent, easy job.  Apart from two things:

 

i)  My shoulder (dodgy to start with) is now playing up again.

 

A few months ago I went cold turkey on caffeine, I'd been drinking a lot of coffee thanks to a convenient bean to cup coffee machine that was a bit too convenient

 

Within a week my head hurt that much I could barely open my eyes and my shoulder was that bad I couldn't change gear without pain , went back on the coffee and back to normal

[Guest Hooli]

Took me a good four weeks to get over the effects of stopping caffeine from chain drinking tea a few years ago. After one week I was asleep every time I sat down.

[captain_70s]

Brought the Civic's battery in to see if I could get some charge in it. Could I find the charger? Could I fuck.

 

The thing has seemingly evaporated. Checked all the cars, in the basement, in the storage closest, emptied out under the bed and looked all over the flat.

 

Gone. Bastard.

[Guest Hooli]

Tha wee bastid scunner!

[Stanky]

Decided I fancied a came of Wipeout (Playstation game, not shit gameshow presented by a smug midget) so started combing ebay looking for a PS1. I gave my old one to a mate a few years ago as I barely used it anymore. He was bang into Wipeout. I remember when he finished the game he then gave himself the task of finishing the whole game without touching the sides. As in if he did touch the sides he has to start from the 1st track again.

 

He did it. He also smoked a lot of weed whilst doing so.

 

Anyhow, I digress. I then found out that you can get Wipeout on the PS4 which is compatible with a Virtual Reality headset for maximum motion sickness fun. Cue much excitement. This is something that 20yr old me would've wet my pants over. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Zawka93T4

 

However it's gonna be about £500 and for one game and I'm having trouble justifying it. 

 

But it looks friggin' amazing. 

 

Wipeout is a blinder of a game, on a PS4 with a VR headset would be mental.

 

EDIT - I reckon you could charge for goes on it and recoup your money.

[Tamworthbay]

Daniel Craig really is shit as 007

[drum]

I went to one of my sheds to get a minor wing for tickman.

Pigeons have been living there.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

A few months ago I went cold turkey on caffeine, I'd been drinking a lot of coffee thanks to a convenient bean to cup coffee machine that was a bit too convenient

 

Within a week my head hurt that much I could barely open my eyes and my shoulder was that bad I couldn't change gear without pain , went back on the coffee and back to normal

 

 

I don't drink much coffee/tea, really.  I've been through that phase when I was a trainee teacher...!

 

One shoulder has a chronic impingement (dodgy one today) and the other one has a sclerosis.  Both are fucked and play up from time-to-time.  Sometimes it can go ages and be fine, then I'll just have a bad day or week.  Fucks me right off.

[cobblers]

Our lass has decided she's driving 250 miles tomorrow afternoon so asked me to have a shufty around her car to see if it was alright.

It passed an MOT last week so I was just going at the oil etc, but have a look at this fucker!!

 

That's an 8 year old fiat 500

 

I've no time to do it so I've cleaned it up and lashed a load of acetone/ATF on it and told her to take it down to the garage in the morning, I doubt that top nut will come off with my electric impact guns but they might be able to shock it free with a good air gun.

[sierraman]

I wouldn't even trust a Kwikfit branch to top up my windscreen washer fluid.

M8 your washer bottle is knackered, we’ve priced one up for £350 plus vat, do you want us to fit it? Plus all your tyres, brakes and exhaust are fucked, I’ve done you a quote that resembles a Chicago phone number for the remedial work ok?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.....have a look at this fucker!!

 

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That's an 8 year old fiat 500....

Hooooleeee fuuuu.......!!!!

[Austin of England]

Eldest sons brought his Peugeot 206 around the other night, a bit of judder from the clutch an take up, I assured him it was nothing to worry about - clutch may be on its way out (85K miles) but should be OK for quite a while yet, next day there was a nasty noise clutch pedal went to the floor, unable to engage any gears with engine running - bugger.

 Towed the car home and have spent the day getting to this stage

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Yes the release bearing has exploded into lots of pieces, I have a new clutch kit (£47.00 for a Borg & Beck) and am really looking forward to tomorrow when I will try and put it all back together

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Well it went as well as I had feared / hoped, the gearbox is in the correct place and bolted up, but I had to give in tonight as I just couldn't get the drivers side bottom ball joint to locate in the hub, I was on my own trying to lever the bottom arm down with one hand and trying to manoeuvre the hub with the other and it wasn't having it, the pass side went in no problem, I will engage the services of an assistant and have another go later in the week, anyway a resume of today.

Time taken - Far too long - longer than it should

Swear words used = 1367

Concerned neighbours "is everything OK?" - 4

No of attempts to lift box into position with selection of jacks and wood - 3

Grazed and skinned knuckles - 6

Wife saying "Come in now - enough is enough it will be dark soon" - 1

Anyway that's the weekend over, back to the day job tomorrow

[DodgeRover]

Back to the day job looking like you decided a bit of bare knuckle fighting was an excellent way to pass the weekend, bonus points if you managed to catch the wrong end of a knuckle bar and give yourself a black eye for the full effect!

[sierraman]

Sometimes it’s easier to undo the wishbone bolts all round, fit the bottom swivel ball joint then line the back mounts up with a screwdriver and hammer the bolts in.

 

Clutches are an absolute ball ache on the driveway. Couple of hundred well spent at a garage usually.

[panhard65]

Well it went as well as I had feared / hoped, the gearbox is in the correct place and bolted up, but I had to give in tonight as I just couldn't get the drivers side bottom ball joint to locate in the hub, I was on my own trying to lever the bottom arm down with one hand and trying to manoeuvre the hub with the other and it wasn't having it, the pass side went in no problem, I will engage the services of an assistant and have another go later in the week, anyway a resume of today.

Time taken - Far too long - longer than it should

Swear words used = 1367

Concerned neighbours "is everything OK?" - 4

No of attempts to lift box into position with selection of jacks and wood - 3

Grazed and skinned knuckles - 6

Wife saying "Come in now - enough is enough it will be dark soon" - 1

Anyway that's the weekend over, back to the day job tomorrow

I have got a lovely scar on my thumb from the first time I was trying to get a ball joint back in on one of these. Drop the subframe down a bit and it will go back in. Don't try to jack the leg up like I did all those years ago cos it bloody hurt.

[DeeJay]

You know what's going to happen next.

You'll go out with your assistant, they'll give it a little wiggle and everything will fall into place.

They'll give you that look and say,

"What was the problem?"

[purplebargeken]

The wankers that own the farm where I store the Galaxy and my mate has 80% of a Volvo 66 are being utter, utter cunts. Am totally sick of the entire bunch of condescending, arrogant and ignorant assholes.

 

This is seriously pissing me off and am looking at options with regards to the Galaxy, whether to MOT it and punt it on or somehow (highly doubtful) find some non-existent cash to MOT, insure and tax it. 

 

FFS

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Wasp stings...... I cannot remember the last time I was stung, I usually batter the little fuckers. Nerf gun battle yesterday, picked up the gun and didn't notice one on the inside of the handle.... so it promptly stung inside my little finger. Right at the base joint to the palm..... 

Being a toughie - I only cried a little bit.... 

Seriously - it is still fucking annoying the hell out of me - I need to use a keyboard (here and in real life work things) I DISTINCTLY remember them stinging, it hurt a minute or two - then you just continued on with life.... except the time I splattered one in the corner of my eye while on my Raleigh Chopper...... but that's another story.

[pilninggas]

The wankers that own the farm where I store the Galaxy and my mate has 80% of a Volvo 66 are being utter, utter cunts. Am totally sick of the entire bunch of condescending, arrogant and ignorant assholes.

 

This is seriously pissing me off and am looking at options with regards to the Galaxy, whether to MOT it and punt it on or somehow (highly doubtful) find some non-existent cash to MOT, insure and tax it. 

 

FFS

Roffle?

[stonedagain]

Brought the Civic's battery in to see if I could get some charge in it. Could I find the charger? Could I fuck.

 

The thing has seemingly evaporated. Checked all the cars, in the basement, in the storage closest, emptied out under the bed and looked all over the flat.

 

Gone. Bastard.

Try searching for a tape measure, you'll find the battery charger straight away!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Or buy a new one - that's how I found mine..... lost the receipt though so now of course I have 2 of the fuckers.....

[iainrcz]

Tip

If your Washing machine stops working, and you live with a moron.

Check the drain pump for hair grips.

 

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[pshome]

Day 4 in Peugeot Kingdom and still 2 out of 10 bags missing. Stupid Brussels Airlines  and Luftwaffe pointing fingers at each others as they have no clue where they may be.

Next time i will drive here in my 504, will be less hazzle for sure.