The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Sometimes, being a full-time artist is shit.  The majority of my paid work is by its very nature political, so to be told I'm "not allowed" to be political and that I "shouldn't post anything political" is fucking farcical.  You quickly learn as an artist that you're expected to produce the content for free and shut up, that the people who shout loudest about how you shouldn't be more than an art machine are the people who never pay for the art anyway.  The people that will repost your work on their own account, with no credit to you, for their own personal gain with likes etc.  Don't even get me started on the people that complain I have a watermark on images so people can find my gallery/shop/whatever.

I'm just a teensy bit cranky at the moment.  It's almost all 'political' so I can't really vent about it here.  Still, telling an artist, an artist whose paid work focuses pretty heavily on gay stuff, that they're not allowed to be political really annoyed me.  If you wonder why it's annoying, go check out which countries dish out the death penalty for being gay, or being suspected of it, which countries it's just still illegal in.  It was still illegal in the UK until 1967.  So yeah, it's fucking political.

 

[Royale80]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

Sad day. I've been a subscriber to car mechanics for twenty odd years. It's been going back hard over the last couple of years. The issue that came though the door today may as well have been printed on tracing paper. The quality is shocking. I'm not sure also if it's me, but the content over the last year or so has become very, very boring. I used to be looking forward to it every month. I'm still only half way through last months.

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I used to buy it religiously every month up until a couple of years ago. It started going downhill after Peter Simpson left. As you said, it started becoming very boring.

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

Sad day. I've been a subscriber to car mechanics for twenty odd years. It's been going back hard over the last couple of years. The issue that came though the door today may as well have been printed on tracing paper. The quality is shocking. I'm not sure also if it's me, but the content over the last year or so has become very, very boring. I used to be looking forward to it every month. I'm still only half way through last months.

I used to get CM in the late 70s and 80s. Might* still have some around somewhere if you're interested. 

[paulplom]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I used to get CM in the late 70s and 80s. Might* still have some around somewhere if you're interested. 

Sounds good. What sort of price?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I used to get CM in the late 70s and 80s. Might* still have some around somewhere if you're interested. 

Interesting. Are there any issues that featured the CX at all?

[Pieman]

People who put "asking for a friend" after every question they ask online.  It's not funny, it's not original, and just makes them look like a sarcastic childish dickhead.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Interesting. Are there any issues that featured the CX at all?

Not sure, I'd have to go through them. 

4 hours ago, paulplom said:

Sounds good. What sort of price?

Let me have a root through to see how many I have and their condition, probably won't be till next week though as am busy stripping out a shop atm. 

[Supernaut]

53 minutes ago, Pieman said:

People who put "asking for a friend" after every question they ask online.  It's not funny, it's not original, and just makes them look like a sarcastic childish dickhead.

Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

Asking for a friend.

 

Yes, I already know I'm a childish sarcastic dickhead.

[Tickman]

27 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

Asking for a friend.

 

Yes, I already know I'm a childish sarcastic dickhead.

Thanks for asking for me...

[eddyramrod]

I'm feeling very frustrated at the moment.

A bit over two years ago I was beset by headaches.  Still we took Huggy to Portsmouth, and at one point Danthecapriman had to come out and rescue me because the alternator failed (and I'll never be able to properly thank him); we eventually completed our homeward trip on a trailer.  Then we found out what was causing my headaches and I had to have emergency surgery.  I got Huggy's alternator fixed eventually, then the brakes which were also playing up.  I haven't been able to work since my surgery and the moment my SSP ran out, I was "terminated."  I was frustrated with my Jag, because the garage I asked to weld it kept it 9 weeks and did very little; I had visions of it sitting there for 15 months and effectively becoming scrap, just like my Rover 213.  So I swopped it, then we got lockdown, worldwide.  I've had no support groups, nothing, for four months now.  And now Huggy is deteriorating faster than I can ever hope to keep up.  Not to mention the constant lack of funds.

VERY frustrated, with everything.  Literally everything.  Stuff I can control (which isn't much at all) and stuff I can't (everything else).

And now we've got Bloody Football back on telly, which means my peaceful Saturday night with Pointless Celebrities goes out of the window too.  Fucking thanks, BBC, what the fuck am I paying you for?

Like I said, very frustrated.  Grumpy?  Oh boy yes, professional quality.

[warch]

The day before yesterday I had a slight coming together with a car coming in the opposite direction down a narrow country lane, despite practically driving my car in the hedge, I was unable to avoid clashing mirrors, losing the plastic cover bit in the process. Oh well worst things happen at sea /insert trite old saying of your choice here/.

Yesterday I was driving to work down the same stretch of road and suddenly spotted my missing cover sitting at the side of the road! I pulled up and was amazed to see that it was unbroken and not even scratched. Result! But just as I opened my car door to get out to retrieve it someone scorched up behind me in an old Saab, swung out to pass me and obliterated the fucking thing. 

Yes I am well aware that I can buy a replacement cover for less than a tenner off ebay, but it was the sheer injustice of the thing that annoyed me. 

[High Jetter]

Was it a Saab nut?

[Minimad5]

3 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I'm feeling very frustrated at the moment.

A bit over two years ago I was beset by headaches.  Still we took Huggy to Portsmouth, and at one point Danthecapriman had to come out and rescue me because the alternator failed (and I'll never be able to properly thank him); we eventually completed our homeward trip on a trailer.  Then we found out what was causing my headaches and I had to have emergency surgery.  I got Huggy's alternator fixed eventually, then the brakes which were also playing up.  I haven't been able to work since my surgery and the moment my SSP ran out, I was "terminated."  I was frustrated with my Jag, because the garage I asked to weld it kept it 9 weeks and did very little; I had visions of it sitting there for 15 months and effectively becoming scrap, just like my Rover 213.  So I swopped it, then we got lockdown, worldwide.  I've had no support groups, nothing, for four months now.  And now Huggy is deteriorating faster than I can ever hope to keep up.  Not to mention the constant lack of funds.

VERY frustrated, with everything.  Literally everything.  Stuff I can control (which isn't much at all) and stuff I can't (everything else).

And now we've got Bloody Football back on telly, which means my peaceful Saturday night with Pointless Celebrities goes out of the window too.  Fucking thanks, BBC, what the fuck am I paying you for?

Like I said, very frustrated.  Grumpy?  Oh boy yes, professional quality.

Hey Eddy.

You alright for covering bills / food and drink ?

Don't be afraid to ask, seriously.

[Wack]

Just reading about Pauldoubleyou's old lady golf purchase

 

 

 

 

Look at that engine , no I mean it, look you can see it , no acres of plastic crap trying to make it look pretty, it's an engine designed to make the car move and the mechanics life easy when it doesn't move

 

On the mustang forums they spend a fortune "improving" the engine bay , that washer bottle is ugly ,I'll spend £70 on a cover for it , I said to one guy mine came from the factory with a cover , he got all riled up , especially when I said if I wanted access to it there's a lever in the cabin I can pull

 

Mine didn't come with that , I'll be calling them tomorrow

 

I'm fairly certain it did mate

[eddyramrod]

26 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

Hey Eddy.

You alright for covering bills / food and drink ?

Don't be afraid to ask, seriously.

I really appreciate that, thank you!  It isn't quite that bad yet, I'm just venting more than anything really.  They say it does some good.  I suppose I do feel better for it.  Good thing we have this space to share stuff eh?

Thank you?

[Crackers]

Second year running I've failed to get into an apprenticeship.

Last year it was because I didn't get good enough grades (my fault, fair and square, should have worked harder), and now that I've spent £8000 of somebody else's money on retaking college, every single apprenticeship I've applied for this year has turned me down. 

Phone rang last Tuesday morning, from the last company I was yet to hear back from. Would have been my dream job and a great career. Apparently they really liked me. But they liked someone else more so I didn't get the job.

Been a week and I still haven't told the parents yet, I haven't got the balls.

I should have just fucking gone to university,

 

[somewhatfoolish]

If you want to go for apprenticeships then that is what you go for; university simply because you don't know what else to do is a pretty stupid idea given how much it costs.

[Supernaut]

I went to university because I didn't know what else to do.

Now I'm 32 and I'm an apprentice.

[eddyramrod]

On 6/16/2020 at 7:52 PM, puddlethumper said:

No more Classic Van and Pick-up. I am well pissed off. Really looked forward to it.

I had a terrible feeling it wouldn't last long after Ted died.  He had been editor so long it was practically his own magazine.  I had a lovely big feature in there about Tomato, the red Metro van I brought back from Cyprus.

[dozeydustman]

I have been trying to give away half a dozen small logs for over a week. They’re nice and straight so ideal for turning; just need seasoning. Loads of where are you/too far away, no responses and impatient dicks who send a message at 2am and expect their reply by 2:02am.

Also today is the only day this week madam isn’t working to give me chance to change the coolant on the Toyota. It’s pissing down and the garage Fills with water like a bastard when it’s like this. So I now need to find something to do inside that isn’t hoovering. Or laundry.

2 week old kettle has also gone pop.

Also the capitalisation is up the creek on the mobile version of this site. New line and neither my phone nor kindle auto capitalise. Move the cursor and they auto capitalise the next word. Gets on my Hampton.

[dozeydustman]

Oh, and the front garden has become a turf war battleground between 3 neighbourhood cats. There’s bit of fur, dig marks, cat shit and a strong smell of cat piss in the corner of the wall where the hedge was, because these three cats are continually marking it as their territory.

What do my wife’s cats do? Stay indoors sleeping and not protect their territory the useless twats.

Cats can all just fuck off. Dog owners have to take responsibility for their pet’s actions, so should cat owners.

And someone keeps throwing fag butts in the garden as well. I expected this at my previous house with Wayne & Waynetta over the way; not where I am now. (I have a suspicion I know who is doing it, it’s catching them I need to work on)

[Minimad5]

9 hours ago, Crackers said:

Second year running I've failed to get into an apprenticeship.

What industry are you looking to get into?

Have you got any qualifications / pretty decent results?

Draft up a C.V and get using them feet, a friend of mine was able to finish off his final years of an apprenticeship by doing this, after the company he worked for went belly up. 

His new manager liked the way he "Got out and showed how much he wanted it" ... by that he openly admitted getting off his ass and physically handing in a well scripted C.V, showed he didn't just want to sit on his ass and fire a few Emails.

Show them what you have, and how badly you want it too ... Good luck, 

[mitsisigma01]

48 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I had a terrible feeling it wouldn't last long after Ted died.  He had been editor so long it was practically his own magazine.  I had a lovely big feature in there about Tomato, the red Metro van I brought back from Cyprus.

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[brownnova]

Mrs_b is now 5 days overdue with the baban.

That’s not too bad...

 The grump is the constant stream of people going “any news yet” as if we’ll forget to tell people when the baby is born...

I know I know... I’m being petty... 

[chadders]

It's stressful enough without people constantly wittering at you as if you don't have anything better to do than keep them updated in real-time.

[brownnova]

I think that on top of the reopening of schools imminently and being one of two senior leaders tasked with planning the reopening (a mammoth task in a school of 1500 kids), being contacted from 8am til 10pm each day boss for updates, knowing staff and pupil safety rests in how well I plan the reopening, and knowing that staff are relying on me for exactly what to do with the kids whilst they’re in... life’s pretty stressful just now! 

It’ll be ok though! 

[ProgRocker]

Oh great, I now have a big scratch down the near side of my Almera.  As if it didn't look shed like enough with the brown tape around the wings.   mirrors.

No proof of who did the deed. I hope the culprit(s) get a big dose of karma. A shitty time to do it too as my dad passed away 13 days ago. 

Making me think twice about getting a better car. 

[dozeydustman]

Decided tk start doing the coolant on the Toyota.

Been faffing for half an hour to get this

into this

Haynes BOL says it’s a tap. This is the only drain on the water jacket of the block. It won’t go back in.

[wuvvum]

RIP Vera Lynn.

[dozeydustman]

Exactly how I feel.

sodding thermostat stud. It’s always a thermostat housing stud that snaps. FFS. Torque wrench didn’t even get to the click.

Packing up and now parts searching