The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

Have a door to fit today so that can wait until tomorrow.  Then it will snow, I expect.

[Neil clark]

23 hours ago, cort16 said:

It doesn't say. This is what's on the facebook advert.

 

Ask them but my gut feeling is Normanton.......

[Zelandeth]

This is all we've been hearing for hours on end every night for the last week.

Exact volume varies from minute to minute depending on exactly what the wind is doing.  Louder than the camera makes it sound.

Loud enough that it keeps setting the dogs off.

The really annoying part?

The car park they're doing this in is about 500 metres from the Central Milton Keynes Police Station.  They can SEE it from their main entrance.

Edited December 11, 2021 by Zelandeth
Fighting with this stupid editor...

[LightBulbFun]

at the risk of making you even grumpier Sorry! it seems the editor/forum software has eaten the video file im getting a sorry could not find the file error

2 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The car park they're doing this in is about 500 metres from the Central Milton Keynes Police Station.  They can SEE it from their main entrance.

can you go over there and politely of course, ask someone at the station why they are not doing anything about it?

[Zelandeth]

4 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

at the risk of making you even grumpier Sorry! it seems the editor/forum software has eaten the video file im getting a sorry could not find the file error

can you go over there and politely of course, ask someone at the station why they are not doing anything about it?

The editor was being an absolute bastard while I was trying to post it, so not surprised.  Try it now?

Last time we spoke to them about it, as an aside when I was also reporting a hit and run, the response I got was "It's the weekend, what do you expect?"

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Video working for me.  I'm sure reports of hearing suspected gunshots wouldn't rouse the Police into a bit of action...

[grogee]

For Mrs Grogee's works doo, we stayed in a Best Western which has a Marco Pierre White restaurant in it. 

Went down for breakfast this morning. I understand the whole celebrity chef thing, it's a brand, and they milk it. 

But what sort of psychopath would line the walls of his restaurants with black and white pictures ENTIRELY of himself? What a cunt!

 

[hairnet]

laptop is dying so wanna go and get another

have massive CBA so drinking tea and watching hunbut (YEAH hunbut) videos

need some glass fuses but they can wait till in the week

meh

i say again meeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

or is it old age

 

[Saabnut]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

or is it old age

 

It's old age! I have it  

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Anti-destination league Sunday drivers* can get in the fucking bin. 😠

[Datsuncog]

What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile.

Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off.

Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough...

[Supernaut]

26 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile.

Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off.

Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough...

Oh, come on!

Every shiter knows that drop links are always an angle grinder job!

I'd say something about you beating me to that car, but my alternative choice of winter beater now has a strange over cooling problem.

I'm going into the centre of town for some Christmas shopping. That should cheer* me up...

[MikeR]

some time clearing shite in the garage revealed the back wheel bearings on my sons push bike are fubared again ...

funny how some people dont notice flat tyres and a wobbly wheel ????

its a cluster off job so that can wait till the spring .

[chaseracer]

If the Dyane's heading to Hereford for its new engine early in the new year, I really need to break out the sparkly stick and upload laurenceteachdavetoweldwithoutkillinghim.exe to get the door bottoms fixed.  But, somehow, meh...

Not good.

[junkyarddog]

Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year.

Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!!

WTF? 

 

[grogee]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile.

Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off.

Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough...

Usually ends up being like this for me, too. You could try heat I suppose. 

[mitsisigma01]

42 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year.

Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!!

WTF? 

 

Lucky he went round you , there's a dumb fk Prius driver round here that looks like they drive into and through everything looking at the all round panel damage 

[grogee]

29 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Lucky he went round you , there's a dumb fk Prius driver round here that looks like they drive into and through everything looking at the all round panel damage 

That'll be my Uncle Bruce

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year.

Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!!

WTF? 

 

'The car in front is a Toyota'

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

That'll be my Uncle Bruce

Is your "Uncle Bruce" a cross dresser .... looked like a lady ...but that doesn't mean much nowadays 😯😯

[junkyarddog]

22 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

'The car in front is a Toyota'

It very nearly ended up being behind a Honda again,but I really couldn't be arsed.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year.

Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!!

WTF? 

 

I've lost count of how many times that's happened to me lately around here.  Last time I was driving up to Leicester where our dentist is I overtook/was overtaken by the same Focus EIGHT times.

I had the cruise set at 70 and my speed didn't change once the whole time!

It is absolutely maddening though when someone sits two inches of your rear bumper for miles, finally overtakes you...then proceeds to continue driving 10mph slower than you were going beforehand.

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

It is absolutely maddening though when someone sits two inches of your rear bumper for miles, finally overtakes you...then proceeds to continue driving 10mph slower than you were going beforehand.

1:02 - 1:09... 😉

[MikeR]

6 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Ambling along today in my Honda, was going to a local car meet,last one of the year.

Driving along at the legal limit,there was a Toyota prius behind me for a few miles,when he decided to overtake me,then immediately slow down so we were actually travelling slower than before he overtook!!!

WTF? 

 

get that on the M6 north a lot , they also hog the middle lane , I watch them slowly catch up with me , then I find an excuse to pull out into the middle lane before they go into parrot mode and sit on your back bumper for a few miles when you may  want to move out , seems to piss them off having to share the middle lane ...

[Datsuncog]

21 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

What should have been a simple half-hour job to change a set of drop links has now become a two-day fuckabout, with the car currently immobile.

Threads on the lower bolt remained impervious to being doused in penetrating oil, and now the hole for the H5 allen key has rounded off.

Looks like it's gonna be an angle grinder job to cut it off - if only it'd stop raining for long enough...

Got it off using the magic spark machine.

Put the new link on, then tried and failed to torque it up to the correct 45Nm because my wrench was too long to fit under the wheelarch - so just nipped it up as tightly as I could get it, popped the wheels back on and dropped it... 

...and it still makes a loud clonk from the front o/s at random intervals.

Bumhats.

[Split_Pin]

If it's any consolation, my Civic needed 2 drop links and a damper for the MOT but it still makes exactly the same knock as before. It was good enough for the MOT man so I'm just ignoring it.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 06/12/2021 at 18:39, Talbot said:

Had you hit said cyclist, I'm fairly sure you'd not have been held responsible.  This reminds me of a similar incident that was shown on some police-camera-action type programme where a car had hit a completely invisible cyclist, not realised what had happened and just driven home.  The cyclist was killed, the driver not held responsible.

 

iirc the cyclist was tested to be pissed as well as having no lights whist wearing dark clothing

[Datsuncog]

11 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

If it's any consolation, my Civic needed 2 drop links and a damper for the MOT but it still makes exactly the same knock as before. It was good enough for the MOT man so I'm just ignoring it.

I think what's bothering me the most is not knowing what the knock is... It's a substantial, metal-on-metal thwack that I thought was the anti-roll bar banging off the shonky link, but it's all nipped up tight now - so clearly not that.

Just a smidge disquieting after what happened to the previous Subaru!

[Split_Pin]

Hmm, the knock in the Civic is quite muffled, like a worn bush, not a metal on metal clunking.

Jack it up, put it on a stand before jacking the bottom arm up to take the tension off the anti roll bar should let you test to see if it's worn bushes on that. Unless it's some sort of awkward design, I wouldn't imagine that's too onerous a task for either you or a garage to sort.

[juular]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Hmm, the knock in the Civic is quite muffled, like a worn bush, not a metal on metal clunking.

Jack it up, put it on a stand before jacking the bottom arm up to take the tension off the anti roll bar should let you test to see if it's worn bushes on that. Unless it's some sort of awkward design, I wouldn't imagine that's too onerous a task for either you or a garage to sort.

Are these double wishbone on the front like the Accord? Ours had an annoying knock that perpetuated several MOTs and it turned out to be the upper wishbone ball joint. 

With the car on the ground you can usually feel it by rocking the top of the wheel towards you.