The grumpy thread

[reb]

Picked up Keith for an after-party McDonald's after work, driving home and a sodding deer leaped out of a field right in front of me.

Not really the right time of day to look at it properly, but it would appear all I really need is a headlight and sidelight, and the clips for the grille. It has bent the front of the bonnet and the number plate, but bollocks to that it's not too important. Stupid fucker got up and limped away, didn't even stop to swap insurance!

[sierraman]

19 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Fucking bastarding appliances. 

Washing machine died halfway through a load. Have you ever tried to wring the water out of 3 dressing gowns?! 

It was a second hand one we got 4 months ago for 40 quid so shouldn't complain. 

Just bad fucking timing as usual. 

I'm not sure what is exactly wrong but it just stopped. The panel at the front smells of burning. But the motor doesn't. Makes a click as if to start, but nothing happens. Motor and belt turn freely by hand. 

Nobody ever gets rid of second hand washing machines unless they are fucked. 

[sierraman]

I had a browse on the Faceache Mondeo Mk1/2 site yesterday. Fucking hell the mouth breather concentration on there was unbelievable. One of them was something like ‘how much is my 1995 Mondeo 1.8 worth?’ Fuck all mate! 

[gm]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Nobody ever gets rid of second hand washing machines unless they are fucked. 

not necessarily, I got a barely used one from a house clearance, only £70 and they delivered it free. keep an eye on gumtree and send a speculative email or two ?

[sierraman]

On the whole though people rarely fancy just upgrading to a better washing machine. You might pick one up where someone’s clearing a house after someone has died though as you say. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, reb said:

Picked up Keith for an after-party McDonald's after work, driving home and a sodding deer leaped out of a field right in front of me.

Not really the right time of day to look at it properly, but it would appear all I really need is a headlight and sidelight, and the clips for the grille. It has bent the front of the bonnet and the number plate, but bollocks to that it's not too important. Stupid fucker got up and limped away, didn't even stop to swap insurance!

Hopefully won't be too, er, "deer" to fix.

[wuvvum]

My washer / dryer was bought second hand 4 years ago and is still going strong (although it had a bit of a wobble yesterday which was cured by sorting the connection to the door lock solenoid).  It replaced an also second hand Indesit machine which managed 8 years before the programmer shat itself (although the bearings were toast by then as well).

I find people quite often get rid of perfectly decent washing machines when they're having a new kitchen fitted, or moving to a new house which has an integrated machine.  They're not all fucked.

[wuvvum]

On ‎10‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 12:19 AM, Zelandeth said:

???

I think it was a reference to the piles of needles on the car bearing a passing resemblance to the POTUS' coiffure.

[reb]

54 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Hopefully won't be too, er, "deer" to fix.

I think we have everything in stock. If Volvo could have made the headlight out of mild steel they would have, that's pretty much the only real damage! I'm glad for my pressed aluminium plates, a plastic one would have shattered. I have a spare set, but why bother? It adds character.

If I'd been in a plasticy modern (C2, for example) I'd probably still be there picking up bits of it.

[Zelandeth]

Bloody sodding fluffing useless pile of excrement DVLA.

No V11 delivered beforehand...and why should there be?  It's paid monthly by direct debit!

...Which they've not stopped taking...so I've no idea what's going on here!

The letter doesn't even have the sodding reference number on so I need to dig the V5 out to sort it too.  What a joke.

[robinmasters]

Been to the cinema twice this weekend; both good films, no complaints there. 

I'm not sure what made me more grumpy, the tossers arriving just before the actual film starts, meaning everyone else who are now well settled in have to move to let them past, or me for obediently sitting through half an hour of adverts for things I don't want. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, reb said:

I think we have everything in stock. If Volvo could have made the headlight out of mild steel they would have, that's pretty much the only real damage! I'm glad for my pressed aluminium plates, a plastic one would have shattered. I have a spare set, but why bother? It adds character.

If I'd been in a plasticy modern (C2, for example) I'd probably still be there picking up bits of it.

I wonder if that was a muntjac deer you collided with. Happened to me years ago when I hit one at no more than 15mph in Bricket Wood. It took out one of my front fogs and still managed to get up and walk off before I'd opened the driver's door. 

[reb]

I'm not sure, I didn't see it for very long!

There, that'll do.

[Cavcraft]

I was going to an audition for the part of Badger in 'Wind In The Willows' last night, but my car broke down so I had to be Toad.

 

 

 

 

[DoctorRetro]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

On the whole though people rarely fancy just upgrading to a better washing machine. You might pick one up where someone’s clearing a house after someone has died though as you say. 

They were moving abroad. Story seemed feasible as the whole house was very bare and she was an aussie.

[strangeangel]

8 hours ago, sierraman said:

On the whole though people rarely fancy just upgrading to a better washing machine. You might pick one up where someone’s clearing a house after someone has died though as you say. 

 

That's how we got ours, a friend of a friend's mum passed away and we got given a 3 month old Braun. Although I then did the thing you say no-one does, when I gave away our functioning Indesit simply because we'd had a free upgrade

[anonymous user]

I was given my first washing machine by my aunt when I had my first house, it was already many years old and lasted me about ten years. (It lasted longer than the new replacement) It had only been replaced because my aunt was in hospital and my uncle tried to do the washing. He thought the machine was broken, so bought a replacement. There was nothing wrong with the old one, it was just that you had to pull the control dial to switch it on and he hadn't.

[Cord Fourteener]

One of the jobs I farmed out recently was fitting bushes to my alternator mounting bracket.

I said 'if its a quick 10 minute job can you do it, otherwise I'll do it myself' - it was in anyway for brake caliper refurbishment.

They charged my over £150 just for doing the alternator bracket job saying that they have manufactured new bushes but as far as I can tell the have just spaced it with a few washers. 

Have I been fleeced? Should I go back and complain, or am I missing something?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Tim_E said:

.....They charged me over £150 just for doing the alternator bracket job saying that they have manufactured new bushes but as far as I can tell the have just spaced it with a few washers. 

Have I been fleeced? Should I go back and complain, or am I missing something?

In answer to your last paragraph:

1. Is the Pope a Catholic?

2. Yes.

3. No.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I wonder if that was a muntjac deer you collided with. Happened to me years ago when I hit one at no more than 15mph in Bricket Wood. It took out one of my front fogs and still managed to get up and walk off before I'd opened the driver's door. 

Not surprised, they're solid little fuckers, came across one sitting stunned in the middle of the road one night. Couple of cars stopped and a woman was going to call the Police to get it taken to a vet !? Anyway I picked it up and sat it it on the verge, it weighed a lot more than I was expecting, must have been 15/17 kgs, once on the verge it stood up shook it's head and dissapeared into the hedge..

[vulgalour]

Free washing machines are the best washing machines.  My first machine was a 1970s twin tub that was at least 30 years old when I was given it, fantastic machine that cleaned clothes better than any other machine I've used, and damaged far less than most of the front-loaders I've used over the years.  It was a bit of a faff to transfer stuff from the wet to the dry side, and it had a little leak from a pipe underneath somewhere, but I could forgive it that for the great job it did.  The other free machine we still use which is an old Indesit Moon that we got from the scrapman in exchange for the remains of a Princess.  Apparently the Moon was broken, which is why it was on the scrap van, but it's never let us down for quite a few years now, the only thing it's needed is a new door seal and a bit of a rust bleb painting.  Really, simple is best.

[mitsisigma01]

Quote wuvvum "I find people quite often get rid of perfectly decent washing machines when they're having a new kitchen fitted, or moving to a new house which has an integrated machine.  They're not all fucked." 

I've picked up a couple recently, set it up in the back of my truck, scrub out the soap tray, as usually stinking, do a load of filthy washing where I've been rolling in oil n muck etc etc, check it all works good, whilst washing the truck, if all good put a double dose of limescale cleaner through it, then advertise on free media type sites. If its not working, leaking, banging, it's already in the truck for the short trip to the scrappy with any other shite I've acquired 

Mobile laundrette ?

[reb]

1 hour ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Not surprised, they're solid little fuckers, came across one sitting stunned in the middle of the road one night. Couple of cars stopped and a woman was going to call the Police to get it taken to a vet !? Anyway I picked it up and sat it it on the verge, it weighed a lot more than I was expecting, must have been 15/17 kgs, once on the verge it stood up shook it's head and dissapeared into the hedge..

They're definitely solid! I can't quite get it across in a photo, but this one has utterly ruined the bonnet and wing on that side. I'm absolutely amazed there's no proper damage beyond the lights/grille and everything being a bit on the wonk now. It was quite the thud when I hit it, far more solid than the pigeon that kamikazed into the front of the last Volvo going 90...

It wasn't even that big, I'm retrospectively very nervous about the several big deer I saw loitering at the side of the A9 a couple of years ago.

[BorniteIdentity]

Hitting a Muntjac deer is like hitting a pig. They are as chunky as they look. 

[beko1987]

My drive home goes through a massive deer bit, I get quite paranoid going through that bit in the dark. Oh look, winters here, 5 month of doing it in the dark... 

I hit one in my 206 and it destroyed the bumper. Although luckily* I'd destroyed it 2 weeks before on a crash barrier so all it did was smash all the cable ties to bits. 20 minutes on the side of the road and another 27 cable ties and I drove home. Was a muntjack though which helped

[Cord Fourteener]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

In answer to your last paragraph:

1. Is the Pope a Catholic?

2. Yes.

3. No.

Hmmmmph. I thought the phrase went 'Would a bear eat the pope if he took a shit in the woods'

[Parky]

Guys working on fixing my Mini were initially optimistic it was saveable but as they stripped it back they found more stuff that needed doing and now they don’t think it can be done.

Engineer is assessing it today but it looks like my little hero who took the hit for me is going to the big Copart yard in the sky.  Am actually gutted about that.  

Now the big rows with insurance valuations to follow.  Rather hoping that as the car was three months old and cost nearly 20 grand that they won’t offer me Seven or anything daft like that 

[Angrydicky]

I hit a recently killed muntjac deer in the Clio and it went under the car with a hell of a thud, and broke the (admittedly ropey) exhaust!

[artdjones]

26 minutes ago, Parky said:

Guys working on fixing my Mini were initially optimistic it was saveable but as they stripped it back they found more stuff that needed doing and now they don’t think it can be done.

Engineer is assessing it today but it looks like my little hero who took the hit for me is going to the big Copart yard in the sky.  Am actually gutted about that.  

Now the big rows with insurance valuations to follow.  Rather hoping that as the car was three months old and cost nearly 20 grand that they won’t offer me Seven or anything daft like that 

I would check your policy terms and conditions,but if the car is that new they should replace like for like,i.e. another new Mini.

[taxi paul]

I had to get new washing machine this week. Panasonic one gave up the ghost. Had it 7 years so cant moan. Gone for a grundig one 10 year warranty on the motor. 5 years on the rest. I did get a price for fixing the Panasonic one but not much more for a new one.