The grumpy thread

[Louise2cv]

I am considering buying a Wii, with the genuine plan to get some exercise without having to go to a gym

 

Gym might be a good place to meet a lady-friend...

 

[M'coli]

Get a cute dog instead - the daily walking will keep you fit and lots of women like cute dogs.

[Pillock]

Get a cute dog instead - the daily walking will keep you fit and lots of women like cute dogs.

 

WORD!! I got laughed at when I used to walk my ex's dogs - a little westie, and a border cross. There was a reason I always liked taking them on my own, chick magnets!

[dollywobbler]

I am considering buying a Wii, with the genuine plan to get some exercise without having to go to a gym

 

Buy a Reliant Scimitar. A great way of building up your muscles!

 

Anyway, my rant is fog lights. Bloody pointless things really and on the night before an MOT, the 2CV's doesn't work. I've been fiddling with it for an hour and it almost works. Maybe I'll get lucky...

[Negative Creep]

I am considering buying a Wii, with the genuine plan to get some exercise without having to go to a gym

 

Buy a Reliant Scimitar. A great way of building up your muscles!

 

 

That would only build my arm muscles, which are already well developed thanks to ..............erm never mind

[Angrydicky]

Maybe he's ambidextrous.

[Richard]

If you use the same hand all the time it ends up curved.

[dollywobbler]

If you use the same hand all the time it ends up curved.

 

And when you go swimming, you can only swim in circles.

[Negative Creep]

I need to use both hands for it

[CreepingJesus]

^After you've sat on them hands until they go numb, the feeling gradually returns, so you have to keep changing!

[trigger]

Are you a fully paid up member of the dead hand gang?

 

[CreepingJesus]

^Who, me? Ummm, never...honest. Another boy told me about it. Honest. I'm a sweet, innocent type.

[Negative Creep]

I was really talking about playing computer games, I have of course never made a deposit in the whack off warehouse. Such things make baby Jesus cry

[seth]

Are you a fully paid up member of the dead hand gang?

 

Are they related to

?

[Claypole]

Westie's for the win.

 

[trigger]

A westie pissed up my leg the other day.

[Claypole]

They can smell a "wrong un".

[DCLane]

Found out today my ugly mug was shown on Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday. I appeared for about 5 seconds.

 

Would have been nice to have known

[autofive]

A westie pissed up my leg the other day.

 

....and one drank my polystyrene-cup-of-tea this morning

[autofive]

Found out today my ugly mug was shown on Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday. I appeared for about 5 seconds.

 

Would have been nice to have known

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/disp ... od#3178415

[DCLane]

Found out today my ugly mug was shown on Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday. I appeared for about 5 seconds.

 

Would have been nice to have known

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/disp ... od#3178415

 

That's the one. I appear just before the break and then again when they're talking about a campus built in India. Not a pretty sight.

[trigger]

 

[DCLane]

Thanks Trigger

 

Yep - that's me. Bearing in mind that it's supposed to be me in Bhopal, India I think the hair's not too bad.

[trigger]

Gah!, Just pulled my Kadett out of the garage only to find my N/S/F wing has broken of at the bottom by the sill and the join by the front valance isn't much better neither, It's also gained a few nasty looking scabs on the wings over Christmas even though it's been in my garage, and front wings are like rocking horse shit to find and when you do they cost the earth.

 

Then i pull my Bora (the one I'm trying to sell) into the garage to make room for the Kadett on the drive to notice that the exhaust has started to blow, Great.

[dollywobbler]

Jeepers. Got a damp problem in your garage? Should imagine a decent bodyshop can sort out the existing panels as long as the rot isn't too rampant.

 

Actually, my garage doesn't have a damp problem, yet the 2CV still has a bodyshell that is starting resemble a tea bag.

[CIH]

Gah!, Just pulled my Kadett out of the garage only to find my N/S/F wing has broken of at the bottom by the sill and the join by the front valance isn't much better neither, It's also gained a few nasty looking scabs on the wings over Christmas even though it's been in my garage, and front wings are like rocking horse shit to find and when you do they cost the earth.

 

Same for my S12. The OE drain chanels send all the water to the base of the wing where it attaches to the sill but there's no where for it to go so the wing just rots out and there are no replacements anywhere. Peep it;

 

 

 

I think both are saveable though.

[trigger]

No DW my garage seems pretty dry, It's a proper brick one with a tiled roof, The only thing i can think of is that damp has got under the up & over door, I did email one of the last owner of it and they told me to keep a eye on the front wings so I'm guessing they have been a issue in the past.

 

I'm sure that they are repairable, It will need a new plate fitted to the bottom but the scabs worry me, Can a car fail it's mot if the bottom of the wing isn't attached as my mot is next month.

 

 

 

It's hard to see but there's quite a few scabs like this on both wings now which worries me the most, Without attacking them with a grinder you don't know how bad they are.

 

[trigger]

Sell it now!!!!!

 

You sound like my dad!, I've only just spend £200 (inculding a rear wheel cyl and mot) having a pair of rear wheel arches and a battery tray fitted to my Escort which is worth fuck all!

[retrogeezer]

Hmmm, it does look like it's had work/filler there before, on the lower part there is a ridge between those drain holes that looks like the edge of some poorly applied filler.

 

Not the end of the world though and nothing a couple of hours in a bodyshop wouldn't sort out. For the MOT just cable tie it on to stop it moving about!

[retrogeezer]

Trig, have you got any pics of the work done on the escort??