The grumpy thread

[xtriple]

Not slept for two whole days, been to the docs this morning and I have sleeping pills (not many though, the docs not stupid!) and have just taken one. I am off to bed (sofa) now, wish me luck...

[vulgalour]

Aaaaand, that's another house failure.  The rented property other half was looking to move into has now also fallen through, because of course it has.  So we're back to no viable properties to rent or buy within budget in our area and he's only a few weeks to find something before the last resort of moving in with his folks which, I can tell you, nobody wants.  At least there is a get out, that's something, but still.  Can someone remind me why people want to live in the South East again?  I'm struggling to see the benefits lately.

[barefoot]

48 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

They say 'Will you be the registered keeper?'

No, they say, 'Are you the registered keeper?' And you reply,  'I soon will be'. Like we all did when we were insuring that Y10 that did the rounds a few years ago. And I'm sure that we would have each become the registered keeper as a matter of some urgency, had matters necessitated  it! Good luck, although I'm pretty sure that if it's the insurance company that cancels a policy, as in this instance, here's a whole lot less to pay than if you were to cancel it.

[purplebargeken]

PBIS insure the unloved 45 which is a 2000 reg car under their classic umbrella.

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Aaaaand, that's another house failure.  The rented property other half was looking to move into has now also fallen through, because of course it has.  So we're back to no viable properties to rent or buy within budget in our area and he's only a few weeks to find something before the last resort of moving in with his folks which, I can tell you, nobody wants.  At least there is a get out, that's something, but still.  Can someone remind me why people want to live in the South East again?  I'm struggling to see the benefits lately.

There is none. 

[loserone]

3 hours ago, loserone said:

205 Xud?

 

18 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Fucking Lancaster insurance company! 

I was trying to insure the Rover, only to be told that 'We can't insure this type of vehicle' 

But because they now know I don't have the BMW, they have written to me to say they are cancelling the policy. Which means I will be charged the cancellation fee, which will be pretty much the rest of the policy. I have 7 days to insure another vehicle. 

Does anyone have a 'classic' that is off the road I could 'insure'? Not sure what else to do, I'd rather keep the policy open in case I end up with a second car which they can insure. 

I will have to retract this offer, sorry.

My potentially new car is too new for Peter James to insure.  So instead of paying a £20 charge to insure it instead of the 405, I'll move the policy over to the 205 instead.

And add the new car to the moderns aviva policy for .... £31.

[Lankytim]

19 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Fucking Lancaster insurance company! 

I was trying to insure the Rover, only to be told that 'We can't insure this type of vehicle' 

But because they now know I don't have the BMW, they have written to me to say they are cancelling the policy. Which means I will be charged the cancellation fee, which will be pretty much the rest of the policy. I have 7 days to insure another vehicle. 

Does anyone have a 'classic' that is off the road I could 'insure'? Not sure what else to do, I'd rather keep the policy open in case I end up with a second car which they can insure. 

1968 Volvo 145?

[vulgalour]

Have decided to quit the house hunt.  Not sure what happens next.  I'll figure something out.

[clayts450]

23 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Fucking Lancaster insurance company! 

I was trying to insure the Rover, only to be told that 'We can't insure this type of vehicle' 

But because they now know I don't have the BMW, they have written to me to say they are cancelling the policy. Which means I will be charged the cancellation fee, which will be pretty much the rest of the policy. I have 7 days to insure another vehicle. 

Does anyone have a 'classic' that is off the road I could 'insure'? Not sure what else to do, I'd rather keep the policy open in case I end up with a second car which they can insure. 

I call bullshit on that - they cover my 214SLi K reg on a standalone cherished car policy.

[DoctorRetro]

3 minutes ago, clayts450 said:

I call bullshit on that - they cover my 214SLi K reg on a standalone cherished car policy.

They said that 'the current insurer' wouldn't cover it. I presume they are just a broker in that case? 

They mentioned something about a cancellation and re-insure, that would have cost me a higher premium. 

I wasn't happy going for a higher premium when I was going from a 2.0 Coupe to a 1.6 saloon. 

 

[clayts450]

Yeah Lancaster are brokers.

[Jerzy Woking]

Another London cop hit several times with a machete by a van driver stopped as the van showed no insurance.

London mayor Sadiq Khan sad he was "utterly appalled by this sickening attack".

Tell you what Sadiq, rather than offering platitudes and soundbites, how about putting more cops on the streets? And listen to what the police and community groups are saying, rather than insist that London is safe and is becoming safer. 

Sorry-rant over.

[New POD]

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?

Would that be the Mayor or the Home Secretary.

 

[Jerzy Woking]

11 hours ago, New POD said:

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?

Would that be the Mayor or the Home Secretary.

 

Home Secretary (incidentally, she is my MP).

However, Khan insists London is getting safer, statistics show that in the capital murders are up,  knifings are up, shootings are up, robberies are up, car theft is up, and so on.  I know that 70%of statistics are made up, but he offered none of his own in a recent TV interview in support of his claims.

[wuvvum]

The man is a complete cockwomble as far as I can ascertain.

[SiC]

Aren't they all? 

Either lying fuckers, grumpy fucker or both. 

Saying that, I would never want to be a politician. 

[puddlethumper]

They are all wankspanners, probably 10mm or less.

[purplebargeken]

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, New POD said:

Who decides the Metropolitan Police budget?.

Home Office.

The Met don't do themselves much of a favour, though. Spending at least £2.5m "looking into" the claims of a paedophile fantasist, for a start.

[SiC]

8 minutes ago, purplebargeken said:

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

Maybe against: Yemen? Kabul? New York?

[Kiltox]

4 minutes ago, SiC said:

Maybe against: Yemen? Kabul? New York?

Those places sound pretty tame compared with Ken’s part of London to be fair 

[paulplom]

8 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

They are all wankspanners, probably 10mm or less.

A 10mm one would be useful though

[purplebargeken]

^^ Ok, 9.5mm

[xtriple]

Just rung up the chemists querying why a delivery of drugs has not been delivered. They are adamant that they were... so I checked and the missing drugs were found where all the drugs are kept still in their wrapper with the date proudly emblazoned thereon - 7/8/19. Delivered at 14:20.

Wednesday was the day I got sleeping pills and I was asleep by 2:00 p.m. so sleep accepted drugs and also gave the dogs Jumbones in my sleep as the wrapper was on the top of the bin. Fed them as well! Wonder what else I did while asleep 'cos I didn't 'wake' up until 2:30 the following morning as far as I am concerned.

[MikeR]

Got my pack of 10 25amp croc clips ...

9 in the packet .... !

But still 7 more than i needed for the price of 1 in the local Ripuoff ...

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[barefoot]

Just tried to buy tyres from tyreleader - card declined by bank. Apparently tyreleader's operations are based in Andorra and international fraud was detected. All sorted now.

[Mally]

Just discovered my 75 will do 38 in a 30 zone.

Should have gone in the Minor.

Awareness course beckons I hope.

[Lankytim]

Taking apart an old Volvo D5 engine for spares and snapped the corner off the cylinder head because I’m a BLOODY USELESS TWAT.

[EssDeeWon]

18 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

Two more stabbings in my area over the weekend, one lad in his 20's refused to hand over his bike, he got stabbed. 6 people arrested following that. 

London becoming safer? Compared to where?? Load of bollocks. 

Not only London.  Southend is now more or less a no go at any given time with gangs, beggars, muggers, stabbings, car thefts and break ins.

I joined a local crime page on FB recently when I was bored and being nosey, fck me.  Every day numerous posts saying 'son been mugged' 'my car stolen' house broken into' 'drugs raid down my road' and so on, this is every day and numerous posts. Generally depressing reading through it all.   Time to move in the coming months and out of this corner of Essex. 

How do you reduce the homeless numbers in London?  Answer.. Give them train tickets to these towns like Southend to find housing, this is actually happening.  Well done Khan, that's not necessarily the answer though pal.  The highstreet and town centre has loads of these poor buggers in sleeping bags and tents and it seems the problem has just moved from Khans door step to somewhere else.

[Heidel_Kakao]

I had a bit of a disturbing incident in Cedric this morning. I had just parked up at Asda in Dudley when a guy in a white van pulled up next to me, he asked me how old Cedric was and where I got it from, so I said 1969 and Finland, then he asked how much was it worth. Now that's the kind of question I don't like answering especially from random people so I just tried to brush it off and said not too much. I then made to walk off and I had got a couple of feet when he beeped his horn and beckoned me back, so I walked back over and he then said again how much is it worth, I refused to tell him and he then said if I left it there it won't be there when I got back! So I just got back in the car and drove off, no way was I going to risk him doing something to it.

The worst thing about Cedric is stupidly how much I care about it, the 405 I can leave anywhere but I can't even park Cedric outside my house for one night without being paranoid that it won't be there in the morning, when it's safely locked up in the unit I feel much better. I think I may have to look into getting a tracker for it possibly.