The grumpy thread

[Angrydicky]

Have agreed to buy Rover from @djoptix who is an absolute gentleman, especially to put up with my moaning ‘cause I’m the sorest loser on Autoshite and had set my heart on this lovely Rover. Which, incidentally, will definitely be a keeper and will replace the Clio as a daily drive.

Will bosh the funds over shortly, then I’ll speak to @purplebargeken and see if delivery to Essex may be possible.

[loserone]

2 minutes ago, Angrydicky said:

Clio

One please

[djoptix]

1 hour ago, Angrydicky said:

Have agreed to buy Rover from @djoptix who is an absolute gentleman, especially to put up with my moaning ‘cause I’m the sorest loser on Autoshite and had set my heart on this lovely Rover. Which, incidentally, will definitely be a keeper and will replace the Clio as a daily drive.

Will bosh the funds over shortly, then I’ll speak to @purplebargeken and see if delivery to Essex may be possible.

Deed = done.
Paypal = £312 healthier.
Rover = Angrydicky's.

[NorthernMonkey]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

A picture of the infamous kebab wouldn't go amiss either.

Yep, +1 for kebab photo.

I’ll provide the (live) beer pic

[jakebullet]

The missus has been unbelievable this weekend. A few months back ~wavy lines~

Do you like fleetwood mac?
Er, not really. Do you?
No.
So why are you asking?
Nigel (bloke in flat next door to mrs) does. I thought we could all go. They're the bestest fleetwood mac tribute ever.
Er, okaaaaay.
~wavy lines~

So we get there on Friday night. It's sold out. We're not at the front of the queue. The only place left to sit is near the bar, no view of stage. This won't do she says, and goes for a tour round for somewhere better. There is now nowhere to sit. You can barely stand it's that rammed. Engage lots of whining. She wants to sit with a view of the stage, nobody near her and close to the toilets. Unlucky love! She dumps her bag & coat on us. 3 songs in declares she can't take it any more and fucks off. It takes us a further song to realise she has no coat / money / phone or keys & isn't coming back. We go to find her. Well, we can stay if we want, but she's off. 

Well done love, you've ruined the night in 20 minutes. That's a pound a minute. We go back to the flats. I then discover she has a policy of she only pays for the tickets if she liked the band????? so have to go see Nigel for an embarrassing chat and reimbursement.

Next morning she admits she may have behaved slightly* badly.

I can't wait to do it all again next month with 'letz zep'.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

@Angrydicky, looks like its all turned alright in the end for you, I have to ask though, how would you have liked the roffle to be run? What changes would have made it more satisfactory in your eyes? (its a sort of wind-up question really so don't feel obliged to answer, I'm just struggling to see what anyone else can do if a roffle sells out before a particular person clocks it)

[Kowalski]

8 hours ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Here in north italy the government has closed all schools for at least a week thx to the china cold  . I am now stuck at home for a week with 2 young kids, what joy.

Stuck in Italy with your two young kids? Sounds great. I love my kids and can't spend enough time with them, especially knowing that they will be grown up in the blink of an eye. Enjoy them while you can, you will regret it later if you don't. 

[Angrydicky]

@Mr_Bo11ox nothing at all really. TL:DR I’m just an unreasonable twat who can’t abide not getting his own way. Move along, nothing to see here!

The other moral of the story is to check AS as much as humanely possible. It’s more interesting than doing work so I normally have it open on a tab, not on that day though sadly!

[Floatylight]

Always here when needed, comrade leader 

Cheers, must meet up for coffee..

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[Cavcraft]

On 2/22/2020 at 9:11 PM, worldofceri said:

Thanks @SiC

I’ve seen the stories circulating about the guy/s apparently stealing cars from unsuspecting Shiply customers.

The problem is that everyone assumes (wrongly) that Shiply have vetted the transporters on their site. I think you have to provide evidence of your address, but that’s about it. Shiply do not give a shit whether the people doing the work they’re taking a cut of are insured or otherwise legitimate and compliant. They also give zero fucks if you lose your money and or car/goods to a con-man.

To a certain extent my business benefits from folk being overly trusting as I often go to pick up cars that have been paid for sight unseen. However I have no issue waiting the ten minutes or so it takes for a buyer to bacs the funds over to a seller after I’ve arrived and ascertained all is above board. Plus  I’m more likely to be offered a coffee and a biscuit in these circumstances!

They sound as awful as U-ship, who certainky operate in a similar (if not worse) way.

 

Only yesterday, someone's Astra VXR Nurburgring went missing via Shipley. Allegedly been spotted on trade plates in Leeds somewhere, but there were a couple of good pictures of the recovery truck driver.

[Cord Fourteener]

I spend a week or so wondering what's going on, has driving on flooded roads knackered my MAF? Are the VANOS seals going? Are the remaining 5 coil packs needing replacing, or are they faulty in the constant wet? Surely not!?

Will I have to clean the Idle control valve?

Checked my leak oil level, turns out some friggin idiot left the oil filler cap off and it was just sat on top of the engine minding it's own business, not fitted, not making a seal.

I'm the only idiot who checks the oil on my car.

Engine performs like brand new again, unsurprisingly.

[Bren]

On 2/23/2020 at 9:24 AM, purplebargeken said:

I know you really wanted it mate, there stuff I've missed on here and thought...................... FUCK.

We just have to shake ourselves down and crack on.  We get there eventually.  Keep in touch with the new owner and maybe in a few months time, this is AS after all

I missed out on a really nice volvo V70 D5 on here not long back.

Having said that, so did everybody else.

[cort1977]

18 hours ago, Kowalski said:

Stuck in Italy with your two young kids? Sounds great. I love my kids and can't spend enough time with them, especially knowing that they will be grown up in the blink of an eye. Enjoy them while you can, you will regret it later if you don't. 

Ha! I have an eight and ten year old and I'm worried that they will shut the school for snow and i will have to spend a day with the little bastards.  A whole week sounds horrendous.

(I am joking - but only a bit...) 

[dozeydustman]

Does anyone want my lurgy? a sort of half-arsed attempt at a cold with mild sinus pain and a thick throat, but not actually enough to either put me to bed or keep me off work. Been loitering since just before xmas.

[loserone]

1 minute ago, dozeydustman said:

Does anyone want my lurgy? a sort of half-arsed attempt at a cold with mild sinus pain and a thick throat, but not actually enough to either put me to bed or keep me off work. Been loitering since just before xmas.

Aye go on then, swap.  I've had five colds this year

[dozeydustman]

1 minute ago, loserone said:

Aye go on then, swap.  I've had five colds this year

Five separate colds, or the same persistent half arsed cold that won't sod off?

[loserone]

Oh, different man flu symptoms every time

[angle]

Sakes man. I was meant to be going to see Sleater Kinney in London on wednesday but everyone is ill. Fair enough, See Tickets do a thing where you can still tickets on at face value, and I got an email last night to say they'd sold. Wahey, I'm not going to lose £75! Posted them this morning on the way in to work. 

Then at lunchtime I got another email. 'The email we sent you last night was sent in error, please don't post them' (followed, ten minutes later, by a text telling me they'd sold, the hopeless bastards). 

So far, the reply I've had is 'we've contacted the person we told you to send them to and asked them to send the tickets back to us, we'll be in touch shortly' because that's definitely going to work. I am giving them until midday tomorrow before I lose my shit. 

[HMC]

23 hours ago, Angrydicky said:

Have agreed to buy Rover from @djoptix who is an absolute gentleman, especially to put up with my moaning ‘cause I’m the sorest loser on Autoshite and had set my heart on this lovely Rover. Which, incidentally, will definitely be a keeper and will replace the Clio as a daily drive.

Will bosh the funds over shortly, then I’ll speak to @purplebargeken and see if delivery to Essex may be possible.

Great! I remember you mentioned you had a soft spot for 45s on my thread. It’s funny, I’ve always liked them but, despite being essentially the same car I’ve been a bit meh about 400 saloon/ hatches. One hell of a nose job I guess.

[Angrydicky]

19 minutes ago, HMC said:

Great! I remember you mentioned you had a soft spot for 45s on my thread. It’s funny, I’ve always liked them but, despite being essentially the same car I’ve been a bit meh about 400 saloon/ hatches. One hell of a nose job I guess.

Funnily enough I feel exactly the same way as you about 400s. They leave me cold and I’m not much warmer for the R8s actually (though I do appreciate all of them)

[eddyramrod]

People.

Fucking people.

Fucking ignorant people.

Fucking ignorant, mannerless, shouty, aggressive, bastarding people.

Why do I have to share this planet, this life, with this rubbish?

I am the most timid, law-abiding, pleasant person you could possibly meet, and I'm walking the smallest dog.  Well ok, as Chihuahuas go she's quite big, but you know what I mean.

So tonight at 1730 I was walking her a couple of streets from home and she stopped to do a poo, just by a much bigger poo done by another dog.  Now having had freshly-cooked meat yesterday (doggy bag from the carvery we went to) Memphis is a bit constipated.  It'll be a day or two before she does any more than little bullets.  So I dug a bag out of my pocket and picked up what she'd done, and walked on, just as a black diesel Audi parked up where we'd been.  As we got near the end of the street, from behind me comes "Hey, dogshit!" at a wake-the-dead volume.  I turned, holding up my bag.

"Not mine, I pick hers up!"     

"Aye, fuck you did!"  (Want to guess where he's from?  I think I've written enough of his accent...)

"That wasn't us!"  And we carried on round the corner.

1: Don't talk to strangers like that, you don't know what they might do!  (In my case, fuck all, which does nothing but fill me with frustration.)

2: Get your facts straight.  Did you see my dog do that poo?  No you fucking didn't.  There is no way on this or any other Earth you could have, even if you'd been walking with us, because she didn't do it, and what she did do, I picked up.

3: You really want to have this row at maximum volume in the street where you live?

 

Do I really have to admit to being the same species as that?

[eddyramrod]

Also, now I'm telling you lot the story, my fingers are shaking so much I can barely type.

 

HAVEN'T I GOT ENOUGH TO COPE WITH????????????????????????????????????????????

[artdjones]

Hope you understand the accent.

[eddyramrod]

Two things against that...

1: I never think of these things until much too late;

2: I'm too chicken.

[High Jetter]

...and 3: as you're both local, do you really want to start a war?

[eddyramrod]

That too.  And I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that I'm the one who'd be seen to have started it, even though I'm the innocent party.

Nice guys finish last?  Every fucking time, matey, every fucking time.

[Angrydicky]

I can relate to you @eddyramrod. I hate confrontation too, especially with ignorant twats. Don't let the bastards grind you down, etc

[eddyramrod]

Thanks AD.  I've spent over 50 years trying not to let them grind me down.  It doesn't work.

[strangeangel]

1 hour ago, angle said:

Sakes man. I was meant to be going to see Sleater Kinney in London on wednesday but everyone is ill.

 

 

If it's any consolation the new album is utter shit, so shit that Janet Weiss quit over it, so you'll not be missing anything. I honestly can't think of another example of a band with such a stellar back catalogue that went on to curl out such a monumental turd, but there you go.

 

I have a ticket for the Manchester show on Thursday that I will not be attending and that hasn't sold out, so I have 0% chance of recouping the £30+ I have wasted,

 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

That too.  And I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that I'm the one who'd be seen to have started it, even though I'm the innocent party.

Nice guys finish last?  Every fucking time, matey, every fucking time.

Normal women and echoists are taken in by those on the narcassistic side of normal.  Its exciting, it's spontaneous, it's leaving them feeling not quite adequate, and turns them into needy, trying to be better, and nice guys are not exciting, and allow women to feel equal and therefore able to make decisions for themselves. And they choose less boring. Less secure options are more exciting.