The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

It'll be an emulsional roller-coaster.

[Fumbler]

Got a cold. First time I've been proper ill in two years. Oh well, it'll blow over soon...

[dozeydustman]

Sodding car insurers. Get small 1.3 car so madam has a choice of cars to pootle in if needed.

Wife gets her on the Corolla for <£500 for a year back in September. Just tried to get her insured on the Suzuki as my policy is up for renewal in December. 

5 insurance search websites, only 4 providers would consider her as a named driver providing we have a black box and want to pay in excess of £2k per annum. I got quoted £900 when I had the Saab.

Without madam (just the wife and me) £198 for the year.

So much for smoll city cars being an ideal choice for a driver with 1 year and 3 months' worth of experience, no points or accidents. I just don't get it.

[dozeydustman]

And now we've got a blocked sodding soil pipe somewhere. And I can't find my drain flexi-auger.

FFS

[MikeR]

I went out to my car to try the gps on my phone out under the heated windscreen ..and outside the car .....

so I switched the windscreen power on and off ......

and the radio died ..

but the gps worked ..

so thats the radio and a track rod end to sort out .......  sometime when its warmer

[Jerzy Woking]

Best thing to do with a road parked wheelie bin is to fill it to the brim with old patio paving slabs.

 

[Parky]

Or water...

[twosmoke300]

Or Postcrete

[Parky]

Or wasps

[omegod]

Or bags of offal from the local abattoir 

[chaseracer]

Or a combination of any of the above...

[Floatylight]

Sodding car insurers. Get small 1.3 car so madam has a choice of cars to pootle in if needed.
Wife gets her on the Corolla for 5 insurance search websites, only 4 providers would consider her as a named driver providing we have a black box and want to pay in excess of £2k per annum. I got quoted £900 when I had the Saab.
Without madam (just the wife and me) £198 for the year.
So much for smoll city cars being an ideal choice for a driver with 1 year and 3 months' worth of experience, no points or accidents. I just don't get it.

Want to buy a Saab for cheep insurance...

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[Floatylight]

Getting peed.off with no useable garage space, awful weather and loads of tinkering required on 3 of our 4 cars...

Need to move or find some workshop space...

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[sheffcortinacentre]

Dunno if still there but there was a site called I think " rolled on paint jobs" some where amazing.

 Done a few over the years on bangers ( to keep plod from staring) .

[Parky]

Dad hand painted our Renault 12 with Cannons Repaint.  Looked ok from a distance but he never bothered cutting it back to smooth out the brush marks.  

I went to a posh school.  Perpetual source of embarrassment that car, nowadays I would be parking it up the front and flipping the bird at everyone

[xtriple]

I used Parsons 'Re-paint' on a Cortina 1500 GT estate with the widest wheels and arches ever seen! Bought it from Scunthorpe car auctions for £90 and ran it for a whole winter. Decided to smarten it up a bit and used the paint in Modena green and it came out...

 

Really well! Few brush marks here and there but overall, 9/10 though it takes ages to dry so if it had rained it would have been fucked.

In other matters: been asking Kyle what he wants for Christmas and he suggested a 'Die Grinder'. I thought that was a good idea and set to looking for the same stuff I have as it's been really good for years. Blue point 'Mini' air die grinder over a ton and the four dies to go with it (genuine Snap-on) are also a hundred quid! So bought a new but used (brand new but fitted with the airline connector so used...)  Blue point grinder for £55 and put in an offer for four dies of £90. See if that gets accepted.

Snap-on stuff is fucking expensive ain't it?

[paulplom]

8 hours ago, omegod said:

Or bags of offal from the local abattoir 

A mate and I once pinched a large bag of offal from fridge behind a butchers shop once. Must have been 10 or 12 years old. We were chasing kids around pulling the tendons on chickens feet trying to grab them, playing tiggy with chicken heads etc. We dumped the bag at the top of my Grandmas garden. The smell from it a couple of weeks later was horrific.

[paulplom]

Looking back on a few memories, I was a right little cnut. No wonder my stepdad hated me ?

[chaseracer]

7 hours ago, paulplom said:

...large bag of offal... must have been 10 or 12 years old... smell from it... was horrific.

I'm not surprised! ?

[omegod]

Bin stuff reminded me of a story, my mate used to do the bins on a rough estate and went to pull one, found it to be extremely heavy so lifted the lid expecting to find bricks or the like, he was very surprised to see a huge and very dead German Shepherd staring back at him. 

[5speedracer]

How did he know he was German or indeed a shepherd?

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Remind me not to listen to Radio 4.

[Lacquer Peel]

Aye Charles Moore is repugnant.

 

 

[MarvinsMom]

i wouldn't recommend listening to Radio 4 at the best of times, not unless your politics match theirs....

anyhoo..... kerry bought a pair of second hand brake cables for the lexus, which have arrived, and are no good.

the bracket thing that goes into the backplate on the shorter cable is broken.

so that's £30 down the drain.

i've said that fucking thing shoulda gone over the bridge months ago.

oh, and as of this morning i'm now outta work. i guess it doesn't rain, it pours!

[Supernaut]

1 minute ago, MarvinsMom said:

i wouldn't recommend listening to Radio 4 at the best of times, not unless your politics match theirs....

anyhoo..... kerry bought a pair of second hand brake cables for the lexus, which have arrived, and are no good.

the bracket thing that goes into the backplate on the shorter cable is broken.

so that's £30 down the drain.

i've said that fucking thing shoulda gone over the bridge months ago.

oh, and i'm now outta work. i guess it doesn't rain, it pours!

So you're saying there could be a cheap LS400 available soon that just needs the handbrake cables sorted?

[MarvinsMom]

yes, but you might have to go to either copart or piggots autospares to get it!

mot due at the beginning of December, and remember, there are no new handbrake cables to be had for one of those anywhere.....

[Rovorsche]

On 11/20/2019 at 7:18 PM, paulplom said:

Veiw from my front door. We live in a big cul de sac with a massive green outside and lots of big trees at the bottom. She's no fucking excuse really.

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Wheel it down the road.
Park it next to a lamp post.
Apply a Burly D-Shackle bike lock between the handle and the lamp post, for best effect the night before bin day.

 

Plan B

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waste-Sticker-Self-Adhesive-Sign/dp/B01A8MWCD2

£1.16 delivered

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 11/20/2019 at 3:48 PM, paulplom said:

2 doors up who told me to shift my car the other day, has started to put her wheelie bin in the road to stop others parking there. Bear in mine the street is quite empty.
For some reason, that I can't quite put my finger on, this has made me very angry indeed. It's totally irrational but I want to launch her fucking bin through her fucking window.

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that is not legal

[Tadhg Tiogar]

53 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

i wouldn't recommend listening to Radio 4 at the best of times, not unless your politics match theirs....!

Radio 4 comedy is generally quite good. That's really my only reason for tuning in. 

All the other radio stations are shite, and my car radios don't pick up any of the Irish stations.

[Eddie Honda]

8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Remind me not to listen to Radio 4.

Saw the headline first and momentarily thought How can she edit a defunct newspaper? ?‍♂️