The grumpy thread

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Facebook is a like a Panini sticker book of vague acquaintances for some people.

[Tayne]

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[Claypole]

Some of the Epson ones have a massive chunk of high density felt in the bottom to soak up all the ink they waste carrying out cleaning cycles etc.

 

Pretty sure 100% of them break before the pad fills up.

 

Colour laser for me.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Bollocks. I think one of my cats has taken a piss in the lounge. It stinks in here.

 

Its most peculiar, as neither of them have ever soiled in the gaff before.

 

 

 

Have you done something to annoy them?

 

Nope, they are still treated like royalty.

 

Ungrateful little bastards.

[myglaren]

Some of the Epson ones have a massive chunk of high density felt in the bottom to soak up all the ink they waste carrying out cleaning cycles etc.

 

Pretty sure 100% of them break before the pad fills up.

 

Colour laser for me.

 

My HP has too, flooded it and then it ran out all over the desk (while I wasn't there)

 

I expect the solvent evaporates away between normal cleaning sessions.

[Pillock]

Out of all my 100 'friends' (oooh, Mr Popular!), only 1 is someone I was at school with. And probably 25% are you lot.

 

I don't understand how some folk end up with thousands of friends on there, though. Maybe if I was less miserable....

 

I also only have one schoolfriend on there (who is also a mate's younger brother, plus I went to uni with him) so you're not alone. About a third are folk from shows/forums who I count as friends, a small percentage are ex-girlfriends, and the rest are work folk I think.

 

I've just blocked my boss, he was cluttering up my wall with SHIT.

[Tayne]

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[Mr H Sceptre]

Bollocks. I think one of my cats has taken a piss in the lounge. It stinks in here.

 

Its most peculiar, as neither of them have ever soiled in the gaff before.

 

 

 

Have you done something to annoy them?

 

Nope, they are still treated like royalty.

 

Ungrateful little bastards.

 

Could one be unwell and in distress?

 

Nah, they're both absolutely fine - physically & mentally. I often have the back door open so maybe another cat has come in and sprayed or pissed or suchlike.

[dollywobbler]

Could be another cat, but not necessarily. One of ours (now sadly departed) developed an annoying habit of randomly pissing on things. He must have got a shock when he pissed on the 4-plug extension lead! Thankfully he didn't kill our telly...

 

Wasn't sure it was him, then there was a bit of cardboard on the floor in the corner and he just calmly walked up to it and pissed all over it! Never really worked out why he did it.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Could be another cat, but not necessarily. One of ours (now sadly departed) developed an annoying habit of randomly pissing on things. He must have got a shock when he pissed on the 4-plug extension lead! Thankfully he didn't kill our telly...

 

Wasn't sure it was him, then there was a bit of cardboard on the floor in the corner and he just calmly walked up to it and pissed all over it! Never really worked out why he did it.

 

True. Will monitor the situation.......

[dollywobbler]

This has got me grumpy.

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=88306

 

No, not just another RR rant, but specifically the fact that a very nice looking Standard Nine has been butchered into a Hot Rod. I hope that actually, it was chronically rotten despite looking good because I'd hate to think that the bloke ruined a perfectly good car.

 

I'm not against hot rods - far from it. There's a Daimler DB18 'rod' that I'm following on RR with much interest, because it was f*cked and he's making something out of what was to all intents and purposes, bean tins. Likewise, ScaryOldCortina's Project Mayday Somerset Rod is one of the coolest things I've ever seen (and one of the best things to read on the internet).

 

But to take a perfectly good car and transform it into something very different just doesn't feel right to me. It's at exactly the same level as banger racing, historic racing or just leaving someone's beautiful restoration to rot on the driveway because 'you'll get around to fixing it one day' after it fails to start on one damp morning.

[trigger]

That doesn't bother as much that as that Metro did the other week as i could see that a really tidy Metro was just going to get fucked up (and it was) and end up getting scarpped.

 

At least that Standard seems to have someone who knows what they are doing builting it though i do agree that it seems sad that a tidy one is being used as the project base and not some old barn find.

[Lankytim]

All thats gone into the hotrod is the cut down body (I think), the rest looks like it wont get used. Surely its easier to just go out and buy a rusty tub to chop about rather than a whole car?

 

It may as well have been scrappaged! It IS a very cool motor he's creating though.

[warren t claim]

It IS a very cool motor he's creating though.

 

Only if you're from Texas and enjoy beard growing.

[whitevanman]

It IS a very cool motor he's creating though.

 

Only if you're from Texas and enjoy beard growing.

 

and this is wrong?? sounds like a fine hobby

[scaryoldcortina]

I agree with dollywobbler. I hadn't seen it (just had a look) and as far as I'm concerned, that is an awful thing to do. There is next to nowt of the standard in his build, what IS there would be easily fabricated, so it has died for nothing. Pretty soon after he puts it to the road, they will take the 30's reg away and send him for BIVA (which is where he should be getting the reg for his new build) and that's it gone forever. No fucking way would I ever do that.

[Lankytim]

Heres the letter i'm firing off to the DOOVLA tomorrow (as they dont allow you to scrap cars anymore) explaining that I really have scrapped my Maestro.

 

Feel free to make any amendments you think appropriate!

 

To who it may concern,

 

I recently purchased the Austin Maestro to which this V5C relates (B332 PVT) for spares and it was reduced to parts and the remainder sold to a scrap metal dealer before the "new style" V5C was posted to me. When the V5C arrived I was disappointed to see there is no provision for scrapping a vehicle yourself and that a certificate of destruction must be obtained from the scrap metal dealer first. As the vehicle has already been disposed of as scrap metal and processed as such I am unable to comply with the demand for either a signature from the scrap dealer concerned or a certificate of destruction. Please accept this letter as notifiction that the vehicle has been destroyed and is no longer owned by me and therefore release me of my legal obligations regarding road TAX and SORN.

 

Regards, Lankytim

[Negative Creep]

Heres the letter i'm firing off to the DOOVLA tomorrow (as they dont allow you to scrap cars anymore) explaining that I really have scrapped my Maestro.

 

Feel free to make any amendments you think appropriate!

 

To who it may concern,

 

I recently purchased the Austin Maestro to which this V5C relates (B332 PVT) for spares and it was reduced to parts and the remainder sold to a scrap metal dealer before the "new style" V5C was posted to me. When the V5C arrived I was disappointed to see there is no provision for scrapping a vehicle yourself and that a certificate of destruction must be obtained from the scrap metal dealer first. As the vehicle has already been disposed of as scrap metal and processed as such I am unable to comply with the demand for either a signature from the scrap dealer concerned or a certificate of destruction. Please accept this letter as notifiction that the vehicle has been destroyed and is no longer owned by me and therefore release me of my legal obligations regarding road TAX and SORN.

 

Regards, Lankytim

 

 

If you get any grief off them then this thread may help

 

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.as ... the%20DVLA?

 

I'm not even here and still the mention of DVLA makes me mad. To change ownership or register a car as scrapped here you go into a Post Office, fill out a form and pay $10. That's it, no sending off a form and hoping you don't get fined when they lose it

[retrogeezer]

Was talking about this yesterday and the problems of taking cars off the road over winter etc.

 

Road tax added to fuel is a so much fairer way to tax cars - the more you use it the more you pay - simple.

 

The millions of foreign lorries that wreck our roads would also then contribute so the cost need not be too high for UK truckers/haulage companies.

 

You wouldn't be breaking the law for driving your sorned car up and down the road twice just to stop your brakes/clutch seizing on your classic car.

 

No sorn fines or standing in post office queues to tax your car, no lost sorn declarations etc etc..

 

I can dream.....

[ChinaTom]

^ +1

 

And to all the corporations and small companies that complain I say this: Rightly or wrongly, this is the cost of using the roads - if there is wastage and unnecessarily high costs, then tough - you probably voted it in.

 

Trouble is though, some of these foreign lorries will fill up in a cheap EU station somewhere and not need to fill up again until they return. England is too small a country. What is the tank-range of the average long-hauler?

[Alexg]

Back pain, I've pulled a muscle in my back and it's been agony.

 

Dartford Crossing, I drove through the crossing on the way to Ikea the other week. I borrowed a tiny box-van from work, a Peugeot Bipper, about the length and width of a Punto. The price signs approaching the crossing show a car £1.50, what appears to be a large van £2.00, different prices for lorries etc.

 

So I enter the automatic barrier 'no change given' bit rather that the paybooth, throw in the £1.50 and go to drive through. All of a sudden some jobs-worth attendent jumps out in front "No, Stop! It's £2, £2!!! You shouldn't pass through this bit it's for cars only!"

 

I had a brief arguement that I was never going to win threw in some more money, told her the Highways Agency were wankers and moved on. The car in front of me was a VW Touareg V8 petrol, my vehicle was a 1.4 Diesel that weighs half as much, is half the size, is 3 times better on fuel and puts out a fraction of the emmissions. So why the fuck do I have to pay more each way!!!

[retrogeezer]

^ +1

 

And to all the corporations and small companies that complain I say this: Rightly or wrongly, this is the cost of using the roads - if there is wastage and unnecessarily high costs, then tough - you probably voted it in.

 

Trouble is though, some of these foreign lorries will fill up in a cheap EU station somewhere and not need to fill up again until they return. England is too small a country. What is the tank-range of the average long-hauler?

 

They already do this because of the high price of fuel here and there is an easy way around it - do what other countries do and charge them to use the UK roads.

[Station]

You forgot a few 'twats' and the odd 'fuck you', and maybe a couple of 'arseholes'.

[Tayne]

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[cms206]

As Pete-M'll probably testify, the Czech way of doing things seems a bit better. Fuel is not overly expensive, and you don't have road tax as such - if you want to use the motorways, you buy a sticker for your window in 1, 3, 6 or 12 month flavours. Most of the roads I travelled on in North Bohemia weren't too bad at all, certainly no worse than here. Car insurance is also a lot easier. You are billed for your car at all times. If you choose not to insure it, you take your number plates back to the local office who will in effect deregister your car, therefore stopping the payments.

 

... but that wouldn't work here, because we're up to our tits in debt, the government couldn't run a bath, and no fucker including the councils care about what state the roads are in. Not that any of them care about anything else either, 'cos between tax, fuel and insurance we'll all be driving fucking golfbuggies in ten years and eating soup for our only meal of the day... !!!

[retrogeezer]

Did you actually work out any figures?

 

No Tayne, I did not - but your figures do not include any extra revenue from charging foreign trucks to use our roads. There are thousands of them trundling up & down the UK's motorways, damaging the roads, causing pollution etc etc and if they fill up before they leave France/Belgium or wherever they pay a big fat nothing towards the UK economy to do so.

 

Charging them to use our roads could offset the increase in the PPL at the pumps.

 

I guess that might increase the cost of some produce but I have a choice in what I buy, I don't have a choice in buying 'vehicle' tax.

[Mr Lobster]

Theres still plenty of UK registered lorries travel abroad though - maybe not as numerous as the foreign ones coming here but they do exist.

[outlaw118]

Completely changing the subject....

Blanket weed in the pond.

I haz it. Tried a number of bottled cures, and it's getting worse. my pond looks like some green haired hippies are swimming in it.

 

I'm going to have to drain most of the water out, and get scraping.

What a PITA.

[Tayne]

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[Cavcraft]

You know the other problem of putting road tax on fuel is that they'll just hike it up whenever they feel like, or whenever they've invaded another country or something.

Once they passed the 'road tax on fuel' thing we'd pretty much all be very p155ed off.