The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

They've delivered a headlight and an oil filter for a Kia Picanto to a confused bloke in Durham.

Or some micro parts to the South African embassy as it said Nissan main dealer on the label.

[loserone]

Did you appeal? I'm already working on mine!

No points, then another assessment, no points, no points on appeal.  Then spent 6 months living on inheritance before running out of time 

 

They've delivered a headlight and an oil filter for a Kia Picanto to a confused bloke in Durham.

 

Oh, that's what that is.

[bub2006]

Currently in hospital. Wife took a turn for the worse. High priority case when I rang 111. An ambulance will be with us in 4 hours. Fuck that,in the van and straight down to derby. Severe migraine attacks again. Slurred speech and blurry vision. Dumped the van in 1 of the 10 waiting area car parks and put blue badge in window. I am not well enough with my walking today to go traipsing round the grounds so half expecting a ticket too. Oh joy. Hate hospitals.

[Cavcraft]

My brother's goose and duck crematorium burnt down.

[New POD]

Woman next door keep shutting my cat in.

 

I have two cats, one she claims is nasty, fights with all of hers - he never goes anywhere near

- I'm guessing she's shooed him away at some point.

The other one is cute and she clearly encourages it inside.

She has nine cats of her own & claims that she's unaware that mine is in.

Then she mysteriously finds it & brings it home wrapped in it's own special blanket

I'm becoming very, very pissed off.

 

 

I've lived next door to her for 30 odd years, but this is the first cat to go in there regularly.

Last night when I went round to ask for it back again, her bloke said that perhaps I should 'have a word with the cat'.

She mumbled something about not being able to see when the cat's in

And I grumped off saying something along the lines of,

'Try fucking looking for it then...'

 

I am also annoyed with myself for swearing.

 

I rang the RSPCA who unsurprisingly are totally useless. (I had dealings with them many years ago about an ill treated cow and stopped my regular donation as a result). They suggested that I contact the police as cats are property and the woman is stealing!

 

Anyone any ideas how to approach this?

 

ta

You don't own a CAT. It owns you. Our old cat, used to keep next doors lap warm. They were both old. When we called Annie in for the night, the old lady with no legs below the knee would power her wheel chair to the door and send Annie home.

Annie was a rescue cat and proper mentally unstable but somehow she knew to be nice to this lady.

[omegod]

My brother's goose and duck crematorium burnt down.

 

Are the fire service still Hoisin it down ? 

 

 

Took me fucking ages to come up with something 

[omegod]

My brother's goose and duck crematorium burnt down.

 

Do you think the insurance will sort all the bills ?

[Tayne]

LOLZ if it was Ben Har.

Eccentric Richard.

[chaseracer]

People do like pulling out on me yes.

 

Come again...?

[chaseracer]

Currently in hospital. Wife took a turn for the worse...

 

Hope Boss mends soon, Daz.

[bub2006]

So do I. I love her to bits. She has been there for me through everything and I hate to see her suffering

[beko1987]

Tbh being able to live in the same house as you for more than 3 straight weeks means she's probably a keeper!

 

Best of luck man

[bub2006]

Coming up to ten years now. Married since 2012.

[beko1987]

And I can sort of sympathise as Amy is Jimmy Saville's playground right now with the boy. He fell out of bed and smacked his head on the floor, then when we bought him downstairs so he didnt wake Eva up crying he was sick... There's no stopping her when that happens so I just got his bag ready. By the time we did all that he put his own shoes on and ran to the car in excitement! Amys face was hilarious, but she still went

 

Zafira is making a clonking noise! Kerry from No13 sat with the kids for 20 minutes earlier and Amy took me for a spin. Hollow rythmic knocking noise at 35/40mph! Bastard! Drives fine though, can't feel it through the body. I spent 10 minutes literally beating the shit out of it to make it knock, jacked each front corner up and hung off the wheels every way I could, grabbed the old trusty shitter fleece and got under, nothing up at all...

 

So fuck it, MOT can be booked any time now, I'll lob it in and see what it fails on. ECP Happy Chinese BubbleGum & Automotive Manufacturer Corp whole lower arms are £20 each withouth the daily end of the world offer, that'll knock 3 likely things off in a strike. The new drop links have either transferred the fucked to the next weakest point, or it's just doing a vauxhall!

 

Gareth wants to change his car soon, I've been offered the Mazda5 for £100 or so...

[beko1987]

And I can sort of sympathise as Amy is at Jimmy Saville's playground right now with the boy. He fell out of bed and smacked his head on the floor, then when we bought him downstairs so he didnt wake Eva up crying he was sick... There's no stopping her when that happens so I just got his bag ready. By the time we did all that he put his own shoes on and ran to the car in excitement! Amys face was hilarious, but she still went

 

Zafira is making a clonking noise! Kerry from No13 sat with the kids for 20 minutes earlier and Amy took me for a spin. Hollow rythmic knocking noise at 35/40mph! Bastard! Drives fine though, can't feel it through the body. I spent 10 minutes literally beating the shit out of it to make it knock, jacked each front corner up and hung off the wheels every way I could, grabbed the old trusty shitter fleece and got under, nothing up at all...

 

So fuck it, MOT can be booked any time now, I'll lob it in and see what it fails on. ECP Happy Chinese BubbleGum & Automotive Manufacturer Corp whole lower arms are £20 each withouth the daily end of the world offer, that'll knock 3 likely things off in a strike. The new drop links have either transferred the fucked to the next weakest point, or it's just doing a vauxhall!

 

Gareth wants to change his car soon, I've been offered the Mazda5 for £100 or so...

[bub2006]

Take the Mazda. Can't be much worse than a zaf B.

[myglaren]

Daughter wants to go see this on Saturday:

 

 

Paugeot 207 cab

 In two minds about it. Probably a better bet than her ruined Fiesta.  I'm wary of cabriolets with automatic rooves, so much to go wrong.

[beko1987]

I reckon their going to be the £200 summer shitter car of choice in 4/5 years when their fully worthless!

 

Like I always remember Saab 9-3's being, but they've crept up in price recently

[New POD]

Bloke I worked with went out to buy lunch to asda. And when he got there and tried to close the roof if failed half closed.

Apparently the manual crank takes an hour.

[beko1987]

Plus you can annoy everyone at 5am by being sat in the car going :

 

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

"roof goes down"

"roof goes up"

 

Then swearing when it pops a fuse and lets out the electric smoke mid way through folding back down..

You probably wouldn't even need to be sat in the car for it to do that, or near it at all. Very clever

[myglaren]

I reckon their going to be the £200 summer shitter car of choice in 4/5 years when their fully worthless!

 

Like I always remember Saab 9-3's being, but they've crept up in price recently

She has had a SAAB 900 cab that was identical to a 9-3.  I even used to pass one of the same colour and reg - "R".

Her elder sister had two

She'd like one again but financial constraints argue against that.  As with the C70 T5.

[Guest Hooli]

Currently in hospital. Wife took a turn for the worse. High priority case when I rang 111. An ambulance will be with us in 4 hours. Fuck that,in the van and straight down to derby. Severe migraine attacks again. Slurred speech and blurry vision. Dumped the van in 1 of the 10 waiting area car parks and put blue badge in window. I am not well enough with my walking today to go traipsing round the grounds so half expecting a ticket too. Oh joy. Hate hospitals.

 

Bugger! Hope it all goes well lad.

[scaryoldcortina]

Daughter wants to go see this on Saturday:

 

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Paugeot 207 cab

In two minds about it. Probably a better bet than her ruined Fiesta. I'm wary of cabriolets with automatic rooves, so much to go wrong.

.

 

Ms SOC has been running one of these as a daily for about a year now, it's been no problem apart from the comical lack of room in the back.

[beko1987]

Aren't these of the age where peugeot was just coming out of their utterly shit phase? So probably more bulletproof than anything 3 or 4 years older

[John F]

My mind is blown that you found a suppler of 9/16 spanners in Austria - feck knows where I'd get any in Derbyshire/Notts/Leics - except a car boot sale of course.

 

It wasn't difficult to find Imperial tools at all after the weekend, this Aladdin's palace of tools wasn't far from where we were staying: https://www.innwerkzeug.at/

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Daughter wants to go see this on Saturday:

 

$_86.JPG

 

Paugeot 207 cab

In two minds about it. Probably a better bet than her ruined Fiesta. I'm wary of cabriolets with automatic rooves, so much to go wrong.

Actually clicked on the advert now, I paid under half that for a newer one with less miles a year ago. Hth

[myglaren]

Is it OK?

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, it's good. Fun to drive, easy to service and the roof is actually less complicated than it looks.

[myglaren]

Excellent - she says she has some more lined up too so there could be a cheaper solution.

[loserone]

Excellent - she says she has some more lined up too so there could be a cheaper solution.

Sounds like she needs an MGF