The grumpy thread

[Timewaster]

Grumpy doesn't come close...... Some utter wankspangling cunt of all cunts is sitting on the tunnel Eurostar uses.... ALL TRAINS CANCELLED

 

Uh? What's all that about?

Some sort of protest?

B**x*t nutter?

 

I fear were might see some more nutter related are ache over the coming weeks.

 

 

Edit: News would appear to confirm. B***** Nutter.

[dome]

First day off in 2 weeks and I've fucked my back so can't do any tat fettling. Or anything for that matter

[Broadsword]

Grumpy doesn't come close...... Some utter wankspangling cunt of all cunts is sitting on the tunnel Eurostar uses.... ALL TRAINS CANCELLED

Waste of ungodly hour wake up and now negotiating how I can change the ferry booking for tonight.

I'm seriously, SERIOUSLY wanting this monkey-fisting dog-felching cunts name and address.

COCK

Really gutted for you on what would otherwise been a good collection caper day with a SUPER car at the end of it.. Nightmare. That prat on the line has ruined the day for many.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Really gutted for you on what would otherwise been a good collection caper day with a SUPER car at the end of it.. Nightmare. That prat on the line has ruined the day for many.

 

Truly sorry Joshua, they basically had us all cancelled...... and of course it's a free for all trying to get a later trip - but that will still mean missing the ferry deadline....... then it hits munchkins school morning Monday. in hte terms of AS

 

We're fucking fucked mate......

 

Trying to re-arrange, but it ain't looking great

[somewhatfoolish]

Having been conveyed to work on an HST Scotrail saw fit to give me a shitty old Turbostar to go home on. Sadface. 

[Broadsword]

Truly sorry Joshua, they basically had us all cancelled...... and of course it's a free for all trying to get a later trip - but that will still mean missing the ferry deadline....... then it hits munchkins school morning Monday. in hte terms of AS

 

We're fucking fucked mate......

 

Trying to re-arrange, but it ain't looking great

Yeah, it's one of those things that you just can't really plan for. I really hope they don't try to screw you on the ferry ticket, that is a real worry. The only upside is that I can keep the car stored securely off-site and it is cheap to do so. I best give it a wash and put it back in storage.

 

It's there on the drive ready to pounce back into life, poor thing!

[Fumbler]

Ah the joys of P38 motoring...

 

Fuel filler flap release button didn't engage and got itself stuck in its slot meaning we cannot open the filler at all. And brother's got 59 miles left in his tank. What's even more brilliant is that his model, from 1997, doesn't contain the elergency release in the boot. The 1998 models do so we'll have to jerry rig something. That is, if we don't repeatedly trigger the alarm.

 

The heat also meant that the ECU had a complete wobbly and decided to drop the front suspension, refuse to start the engine and generally not co-operate. We have a feeling it's because the compressor's seizing and it's drawing too much current in the heat. This was in a Morrisons' carpark. Yay!

 

Cue the Beach Boys Fun Fun Fun music on the (probably broken) cassette drive.

[catsinthewelder]

Is it like most cars where you can access the sender from under the boot carpet or back seat squab?  If so pull that out and fill tank through hole to get home.

[clayts450]

I think they're still in a precarious financial position, so probably need cash to come in over the counter, for important things like paying the staff at the end of the month, rather than it disappearing into the black hole of debt at the bank.

 

Nope it was nothing that sinister - the machine really was broken. The Openreach engineer had just finished off sorting it when I rocked up yesterday morning with cash wonga in my mitt. I volunteered to be their guinea pig so they could test it worked. It did, and didn't debit my bank account a gazillion times.

[Fumbler]

Is it like most cars where you can access the sender from under the boot carpet or back seat squab?  If so pull that out and fill tank through hole to get home.

We should be good as the entire switch pulled itself apart when I pulled the dash out. Failed, sticky glue. It smells of solvents everywhere today! Bridging the contacts is a tried and true method of opening it up.

[purplebargeken]

Went down to the garage this morning, was going to Toledo fettle. Mate had parked in front of the garage, bonus! No other cunt could block the access then. 

 

He moves his car, I realise that the key for this garage was on the other keyring. Cue swearing. Oh bollocks. Never mind, I have access to the green Dolly so some small fettling happened. I lock the garage up and get ready to go home. I look at the keyring and see the key to the other garage. I had obviously made it simpler for myself except that I had forgotten completely that I had changed things around. A wasted day. A whole wasted fucking day. Fuck my stupid memory. 

[bangernomics]

Garage tidy fatigue

 

 

 

 

[beko1987]

Your doing tidying wrong...

[Fumbler]

Managed to find the lever to open the filler flap, added some twine to push through the emergency release hole. Methinks Rover knew about this issue!

 

MPG on the dash said 13.2. MPG on the back of the envelope once filled up says ~11. Oh my.

[dollywobbler]

Garage tidy fatigue

 

 

 

 

 

Well this makes me feel better!

[bangernomics]

Glad it does one of us. Ffs

[dollywobbler]

You'll get there. On the rare occasions that I've tidied my garage, it's bloody marvellous. For about three days...

[anonymous user]

I remember the time my uncle tidied the storeroom in the old workshop. He got to the point where he had lovely tidy shelves in front of him, but couldn't get out because of all the stuff he'd piled behind him, between him and the door.

[vulgalour]

That went well.  Princess is already broken and back with SoC.  Stupid car.

[loserone]

Bah, sorry to hear that!

 

Not just selfishly either!

[sierraman]

Christ I thought I’d heard it all. Someone went to look at the in laws car and wanted a discount because there was no proof it had had the head gasket replaced. There’s nothing wrong with the cooling system at all. Next I expect they’ll want a discount because the gearbox has done 90k.

 

Gumtree. As you’d expect.

[scaryoldcortina]

That went well. Princess is already broken and back with SoC. Stupid car.

I'm surprised you aren't more annoyed at the AA...

[vulgalour]

It's okay, it'll sort.  Luckily, I've got two pairs of spare discs to sort the problem and SoC is a leg end so it'll get sorted with as minimal fuss as possible.  AA telling me they wouldn't recover the car because I'd limped it back to the garage for fault diagnose was a cracker.  They also wanted to send someone out to confirm what the problem was before recovering the car.  Absolute farce.  Considering how little I've used the AA I'm just dropping the membership and I'll rely on what the insurance company offers instead, because it's cheaper and I doubt the service will be any worse.

 

EDIT:  I am a *slow* typer today, that was me replying to loserone.

[dean36014]

Autoaid, 45'ish quid a year. XM spring a leak and it was on a recovery truck in an hour

[bangernomics]

Getting there, lots to go on the sales area when I manage to post.

 

 

 

[loserone]

Liked because replying to me and because it will sort. Not because it's broken.

[Zelandeth]

So much for a productive evening.

 

Just smacked my right thumb with a 4lb lump hammer. Didn't actually hurt that much at the time - only realised I should probably pay attention to what I'd done about thirty seconds later when I realised that the "drip...drip...drip...drip" I could hear wasn't water dripping from the pipework I had in bits but was blood dripping off said thumb.

 

Oops.

[Zelandeth]

Oh for the love of...

 

Had to dive out to go grab some Immodium because someone in the family has been having tummy troubles today. Fine. Discovered that our local pharmacy has changed their hours so were closed. Whatever, will go to Morrison's. Only a five minute drive, even if it does mean trying to dodge the idiots doing burnouts away from the traffic lights etc...

 

On the way back I get pulled over by the police. For a "random check as part of a narcotics operation in your area" and "would I mind if they did a quick check of my vehicle?"

 

*Shrug* "Help yourselves...about the most exciting thing you'll find will be an asthma inhaler or three..." Figured that saying "no" isn't likely to make me any friends after all!

 

I wasn't quite prepared for the heavy handedness which then ensued. First thing they did was decent the bag which lives in the boot to contain any random rubbish that occurs from day to day all over the boot. Then the guy went and broke the cord holding the parcel shelf up and jammed the rear windscreen sun shade, when he refused to believe that it wasn't in fact a "hidden compartment" in the parcel shelf. Apparently the concept of a sun shade was completely alien to them.

 

I then got a massive grilling about why did I have a shovel in the boot? Apparently "I've been taking trailer loads of garden waste to the tip all week and it's to help me get the last bits out the trailer into the skip" wasn't a satisfactory answer. I then got another massive grilling about the "appalling condition" of my front tyres. Seriously mate...sod off. They're getting to the end of their life sure enough, but they're nowhere near illegal...not like the plethora of cars you see around here with bloody canvas showing. Not at any part of the tread surface is near the wear bars...

 

They then spent a further twnety minutes going over every damn millimetre of the car, messing with every bloody adjustment of my seat (fair enough you want to move it forward and back to check under it but did you really need to faff about with the lumbar support and height too?)...

 

Half an hour later I was begrudgingly let on my way. Random stop my backside...you saw an older car and wanted to get an easy stop and hand some points out.

 

My uncle is a policeman (and has been for 30+ years) so I have every respect for the majority of them...this particular pair, not so much.

 

So tomorrow I need to clear up a huge mess in the boot, replace a snapped parcel shelf cord...and try to figure out what the heck they've done to the sun blind.

[sierraman]

That’s bizarre. Were I a traffic cop I’d be on the prowl for the real menace, drink and drug drivers.

 

What’s he think the shovel in the boot is all about as well? If you were murdering folks you’d be hardly likely to admit at the roadside to it.

[Zelandeth]

That’s bizarre. Were I a traffic cop I’d be on the prowl for the real menace, drink and drug drivers.

 

What’s he think the shovel in the boot is all about as well? If you were murdering folks you’d be hardly likely to admit at the roadside to it.

No idea. They were totally oblivious to the nutters racing each other at above NSL speeds along the (30mph) road we were pulled over next to as well.

 

Not going to try to read too much in to it, just one of the "joys" of living a stone's throw from the City Centre. Bit like having random parents park in your driveway when they're picking up their kids from the school round the corner. Yay for urban life.