The grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

This fuel panicking has just reminded me there's a really tiny garage in the sticks with (probably stale) petrol that I can go to. Granted, it's £1.38 per litre, but that's better than driving a nearly empty car to an empty filling station with no fuel.

 

Come to think of it, every road I drove on the Fens has got a small tumbledown garage on it. I wonder how much business they've been getting.

[High Jetter]

22 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Or maybe they couldn’t read?

No, the point was that they can put the stuff up, with instructions, but lack the nous to remove it and buy extra crap for next year.

[Crackers]

I am planning to purchase an vehicle tomorrow, with a 200 mile drive home. 

If it's got no petrol in, this could be fun. 

[High Jetter]

Ohh, a new fred?

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Was the same at 21:30. I guess this is what happens when we have a trusted* and entirely honorable* leadership- and certain sections of the press* telling us that there's no need to panic buy. 

Cunts

 

[High Jetter]

I got to Sainsburries about 6:30, only cos queues had gone due to thier tanks being empty. I wonder why. I also wonder about the design of a supermarket layout where a queue for fuel stops you shopping for booze essentials.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I am planning to purchase an vehicle tomorrow, with a 200 mile drive home. 

If it's got no petrol in, this could be fun. 

Fancy having a go at entering for Britain's Strongest Man, attaching a harness to your new car and hauling it home? Gradients could be interesting....

[brownnova]

Did a quick tot up… between the 9000 and the C5 Mrs_b has at least a weeks commuting, and between the MX5 and the 2CV I have at least a weeks commuting. So that’s me fine… 

[Fumbler]

29 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Was the same at 21:30. I guess this is what happens when we have a trusted* and entirely honorable* leadership- and certain sections of the press* telling us that there's no need to panic buy. 

Cunts

 

I have never seen a queue that long there ever. We drove quite near it a few hours ago and it was a dead as a doornail. How strange!

[Leyland Worldmaster]

8 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I have never seen a queue that long there ever. We drove quite near it a few hours ago and it was a dead as a doornail. How strange!

According to my Intel, it was up past the fucking Pantiles! 😱😱😱 Utterly insane! 🤦‍♂️

[Zelandeth]

Bloody trees...

If I ever get the opportunity to sort the layout to my preference, there will be NONE next to where I have to park.

Yuck.

[Sham]

Luckily we're ok for fuel. Boris the Octavia has a near enough full tank. That's a month worth for me.

Suzi the Vitara has a full tank, was filled on Wednesday and hasn't moved since. That's a couple of weeks for Mrs Sham.

My works van has only 1/4 of a tank though, and I'm back in that on Monday. Could be fun*

[meggersdog]

Went home in the Discovery lastnight. Queues at the filling station as I drove past. I was imagining a scene from Mad Max, Toecutters gang roaming the streets ambushing fuel tankers.

Luckily Tesco doesn't have a shotage of veg oil.

[bobdisk]

13 hours ago, inconsistant said:

Im going to re create this photo from the 70s fuel crisis by queuing up to put petrol in my lawnmower.

Take some pics for us. 🤧

[eddyramrod]

I should have seen this coming, really.  Yesterday I was out on my bike, and locked it up while I went to a meeting.  When I came to unlock it the lock (which lives in one of the panniers, and is probably quite old as cable-type locks go) was very stiff and reluctant to unlock.  I've just been out again on it and the key has not returned to the in/out position having been left overnight.   Never mind, I should have some chain and a padlock somewhere.

[eddyramrod]

Actually, I'll add this, because it's a thing I've only recently noticed.

Young men, by which I mean mid-to-late teens.  Many of them are having their hair cut fairly short around the back and sides - and no problem there, but - they are leaving a heavy mass of the stuff on top, with a peak so low that from across the street it looks like they're wearing a black corduroy flat cap, the sort worn by wannabe country folk over their small-check shirts, wax jackets and green wellies.

Is this a grump?  I don't know.  Maybe I'm just jealous because all I can really do with what I've got left is sweep it straight back, unless I want to go for a combover which I really don't.

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Many of them are having their hair cut fairly short around the back and sides - and no problem there, but - they are leaving a heavy mass of the stuff on top, with a peak so low that from across the street it looks like they're wearing a black corduroy flat cap,

Thanks, I though it was only me that think that sort of cut looks stupid.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Actually, I'll add this, because it's a thing I've only recently noticed.

Young men, by which I mean mid-to-late teens.  Many of them are having their hair cut fairly short around the back and sides - and no problem there, but - they are leaving a heavy mass of the stuff on top, with a peak so low that from across the street it looks like they're wearing a black corduroy flat cap, ...

Similar thing with Afros - shave the sides, but leave unchecked growth on top, so you end up looking like a tree.

[eddyramrod]

I've posted a few things this morning, and they've all been Grumps of some sort.  Some relatively fresh, some that I've been stewing on for years, or even decades.  There must be a reason...

[High Jetter]

Time of the month?

[TataBobu]

The transmission on my Wagon R+ died on me, it's really noisy and jumps from 3rd and 4th. A new one is not an option, as it would cost at least 5 times what the car is worth. But apparently all the 5 speed Suzuki gearboxes are made of the finest Chinesium, thus having problems, and I can't find a 4x4 one in Romania. Looks like I'll have to buy one and turn it into a 4x2, and then hope I'll be able to fix mine.

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Time of the month?

We're way too old for that to be a factor...

[gm]

I took some garden waste to the tip the other day and now there is a gang of spiders living in the car  

One of the little sods jumped out of the sun visor and scared the shit out of me on the way to work this morning ! 

[Tickman]

20 minutes ago, gm said:

I took some garden waste to the tip the other day and now there is a gang of spiders living in the car  

One of the little sods jumped out of the sun visor and scared the shit out of me on the way to work this morning ! 

Needs fixed with fire. It is the only way!

[Ohdearme]

two bloody letters from Birmingham council this morning, two ULEZ charges for the space, quite how I'm supposed to know what a cloud with a 'D' in it means when I'm trying to navigate through a traffic jam to my hotel after a day at the NEC I don't know. I stupidly assumed the ULEZ was for buses and the like, thee space has done too good a job of convincing me it is a modern and therefore exempt so I've had to appeal but likely to get told to do one (or rather two, as it got me on my way into the hotel and out the next day).

At least Dart has a warning on the sign saying pay within x, the ULEz signs were as clear as mud.

Apparently 112,000 outstanding ULEZ fines for the zone, with huge amounts of them out of towners, apparently I should have known about the brumbreathes website.

Not like I'm a fare dodger, could have paid the £8 and claimed it back from work if they had at least one sign like the crossing with a set of rates/applicable on it.

[reb]

I'm bored, like unbelievably bored. So I'm looking for a job, part time, full time, doesn't really matter to me. Fuck me is it grim. Loads of jobs I could probably do, but asking for multiple years of experience. What do they pay? Bugger all! Minimum wage or close to it. That there Amazon has loads of jobs listed, both warehouse and driving, but I've not heard good things about either side of things so will be giving that a swerve. Both the local industrial laundry and vegetable packing factory have a few jobs listed but I don't know if they're ideal for someone of my fitness level, which is basically nil. Should have just stayed in IT all those years ago, but such is life.

[Wack]

Took the motorhome for MOT today , good news , it passed , bad news , it's going to need a clutch soon,  FFS , it's still ok for now but the bite point is really high 

I had noticed some shudder when reversing but other than that it seemed ok  

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, reb said:

the local industrial laundry

Avoid, as it will be heavy shifting, or v. repititive and hot. Or both. Ask me how I know.

[hairnet]

A train south to then go north

Fuxake

[Zelandeth]

Dammit!

Just spent two and a half hours replacing a hydraulic line...which it turned out had nothing to do with the leak.  It's not the nearside axle to caliper brake line, must be the supply line to the rear...which is buried up above the subframe.

Yay.