The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Some thieving bastard has taken my wheels.

 

The Starmags, the alloys off the Prelude and two of the four steels I'd collected for escRot, gone from the yard.

 

That's awful. Sorry to hear that - Intake it you have informed the rozzers and any scrap metal merchants of the theft? Also, are the Prelude wheels the ones it was sitting on?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My poor car is trapped in a small room with a broken condenser tumble dryer turning it into a tropical paradise. I have to leave the windows wound down otherwise the inside of the car fills with condensation.

 

That can't be good for it.

[mk1_4dr]

M'coli, I wasn't at home at the time, and the car was with me. Its just looking like and oppertunist theft. Weirdly, they left a gearbox, some exhuast bits and 2 steel wheels.

Unfortunately one of the steels they did take had a trim ring on it, a trim ring that Ive already sold and now Ive only got three of them. Fucksake.

[M'coli]

[Driver related rant]People are cunts. End of.[/etc.]

[M'coli]

Yes. And at the moment I am a very angry and pissed off cunt.

[messerschmitt owner]

Yes. And at the moment I am a very angry and pissed off cunt.

tell us all about it ...

[Polystratus]

Tried a 'specialist' garage if they where interested in doing some MOT prep work so a quick email :

 

Me - ok you'll have to collect the car because its currently without MOT and Sorn'd

Them - thats fine where's the car

Me - about 35 odd miles from you

Them - sorry thats too far to collect.

 

Right I bet If wanted a £10,000 rebuild job their trailer would be on my driveway next day, still I'll do it myself and the best thing they don't get my money.

[Rusty Pelican]

, get a pair of silicon 'eggs' from Boots or a fitness shop, and exercise them yourself.

 

Or use Katie Price,s tits if your so inclined , which i most definitely am not

[wuvvum]

It would appear that Norwich now has its very own Justin Bieber-alike. That's all we need.

 

Still, at least we have a premiership football team.

[trigger]

Still, at least we have a premiership football team.

 

Don't say that around these parts or you'd get linched!

[wuvvum]

Tsk, tsk... Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

[revolting peasant]

[Pete-M]

Currently incumbent in a slightly past-its-former-glory hotel in central manchester an I am BORED SHITLESS

 

You're in Manchester, of course you're bored shitless.

 

Being bored in Manchester is like being in a vacuum in space. It's the natural state of things Nip to a boozer and cheer on Schalke. That'll liven things up, you'll make some friends if you're not in Salford too.

[Station]

It's weird with Manchester, it's a really bleak, flat place. I go to the Trafford Centre now and then just for the drive, and you come out like you've just woken up. Absolutely nothing in there.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Manchesters fucking great, except for the trafford centre, which is the fuggin MEGAPITS

[ashmicro]

Oh MANCHESTER

IS WONDERFUL

O MANCHESTER is wonderful

It's full of tits

And hairy fannies

Oh Manchester is wonderful

 

 

 

 

 

*no, I don't know what it means either. I heard the Manc fans in the Stretford End singing it last time we were there and BEAT them.

[revolting peasant]

[trigger]

My father in law has just had a motorbike accident... Every Wednesday there's a big bike meet at Great Bentley green and he's gone along on his bike, As he was leaving he's pulled of the green and somehow the bikes just slid over with him under it on the road.

 

Everyone's came running over to help him up, the bikes quite badly damaged (it's a two year old GSX-R600) and he's done his shoulder in but apart from that he's OK, I just feel sorry for him as the bikes his pride and joy, he's been riding for 30+ years and can't understand how it's happened, they think it's because the tires were cold or something.

 

Poor bugger, It must have been bloody embarrassing for him as well doing it in front of 100 odd people, I'll stick to cars i think.

[seth]

Having spent four years of my life living in Manchester I'm trying to remember what I did there when I was bored. I think I'd most often drive to somewhere else.

 

Edit: Sorry to hear that Trig, but better coming off a bike at slow speed than when going quickly. I stick to four wheels too. A couple of times around the block on that PC50 was enough to put me off two wheelers with engines.

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

Sorry to hear that Trig, at least the old man isn't too badly hurt. Sounds like his pride got the worst of it.

[trigger]

I think his pride is more damaged then his bike, which he said is not ride able as the handles are smashed, tank damaged and the can is scored, He's of to the walk in centre now to be checked over has his shoulder as swollen up and he can't move, Luckly he had a friend there in a car to take him home.

 

What with the guy getting killed last week on a bike and now this I can't understand why anyone would want to ride on two wheels.

[eddyramrod]

Mk1 and Trig, sympathies both.

 

Manchester: you see, the problem is, you're going on the wrong day. First Sunday of the month you want to be at Krispy Kreme Donuts by the Trafford Centre, where the American Auto Club North West meets. I've been, it's great. If you like American cars, that is...

[trigger]

Cheers Norm, I suspect it was a bit of oil on the road that's caused it, He had a nasty crash when he was 17, a deer ran out in front of him whilst traveling at speed through Thetford forest and hit it side on hurting himself badly (Didn't do the deer much good neither), He's now 57 so won't heal quite so quickly!

[ashmicro]

Ouch/ Still, bikes are fixable, and I hope your father in law heals up quick. I have kept what's left of my Arai Reggae to remind me what a smash I had 19 years ago, and to be extra careful when on two wheels.

[warren t claim]

Some google fu tells me there is some proper bo selecta real ale gaff in salfird, perhaps I will go there tomoz and get hinked.

 

Get a taxi to Canal St. There's a pub there called New York New York that you might enjoy.

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear about that Trig.

 

Revolting Weasel: Bored in Manchester? Try going round Piccadilly late at night. If it's like it was 30 years ago your eyes will be truly opened. Just make sure you slap some fake number plates on your Sherpa and don't spend too long asking those nice ladies in suspenders and Matalan jackets for directions.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I have to say that, for a city of its size, Manchester seems to be quite an alright place. Plenty of decent pubs in and around the city. If you have time to kill during the day, go to the Aviation Viewing Park by the airport where old buffs give little tours of a Concorde and other assorted airshite.

[M'coli]

Revolting Weasel: Bored in Manchester? Try

getting out of the city centre and heading east just by the roadsigns. Fucking impossible.

 

There is an aviation museum somewhere (or there was back in '87).

[eddyramrod]

I think there's still the Museum Of Science And Industry, or some such, at Castlefield. That's close enough to the centre to be worth a stroll, and there are some instantly-despisable trendy coffee places down by the canal there if you like...

[Cavcraft]

Or visit Hulme. You can spend many a long hour looking at your car from a tower block balcony wondering at exactly which nano second those charming youths hanging about are going to nick it.

 

*Manchesterists: No offence like, just my sister lived there in 1980 and it was like that then.