The grumpy thread

[Metal Guru]

16 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Well, she did do the same with Savile. Time to hand over the keys to the palace methinks. 

Pretty much standard for former PMs to be knighted. It seems he’s been made to wait longer than most, which he will be well aware of. Queenie is subtle if nothing else.

[Spurious]

31 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Pretty much standard for former PMs to be knighted. It seems he’s been made to wait longer than most, which he will be well aware of. Queenie is subtle if nothing else.

Took John Major 15 years as well to get it, so the last two took 15 years or so. Hopefully that doubles for Boris. Or never at all.. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Spurious said:

Took John Major 15 years as well to get it, so the last two took 15 years or so. Hopefully that doubles for Boris. Or never at all.. 

John Major was PM until 1997 and was knighted in 2005.

[somewhatfoolish]

8 hours ago, Remspoor said:

How could want to punch William Hartnell?

He looks like Peter Stringfellow. That's not a look most people want to cultivate.

[anonymous user]

58 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

He looks like Peter Stringfellow. That's not a look most people want to cultivate.

Especially as he's dead

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Pretty much standard for former PMs to be knighted. It seems he’s been made to wait longer than most, which he will be well aware of. Queenie is subtle if nothing else.

Shame she couldn't have waited a few more decades. 

[wuvvum]

4 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Shame she couldn't have waited a few more decades. 

Not normally an option when you're 95...

[Quintus]

11 hours ago, Timewaster said:

The similarity to Saville just keeps increasing. 

Now then 🙂

[Dick Cheeseburger]

16 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Not normally an option when you're 95...

That was the entire point of my suggestion 😉

[Zelandeth]

Oh FFS... enough with the fscking fireworks...

[Mally]

On 12/28/2021 at 3:36 PM, Mally said:

As there's nothing much to do between Xmas and New Year,

 

 

Will my next post be a grump or a grin? Place yous bets now, I'm about £300 in so far, and that gearbox is heavy.

 

 

Can confidently say reversal is not  always easy.

Six part days on this, mostly 3 to 4 hours sometimes longer. They reckon 6 hours, 10 for the first time.

My first time took 22 hours, and I reckon to know what I'm doing. Mind you I'm 76 in a fortnight.

Had to saw down the side of the nuts on the turbo studs so they didn't break, broke 3/8 to 1/2" reducers x3 removing the subframe. (realised when we got it off that one of the bolts had been stripped previously and someone had tack welded the subframe and tack welded the bolt head) . May be that's why we had to weld a socket to an halfshaft to undo it!

Re assembly in itself wasn't to bad. Let the gearbox down with a board on a jack. but lifted it in with a sling on the engine hoist. That's the way to do it.

Couldn't get it to go on,  took it down to inspect, put it on again and it flew in.

My son had helped with  the dismantle, but obv out on NYE. 

Which way does the bleedin hair clip go on the clutch pipe? Wasn't me that removed it. 

How does the gear change go on? There were many such issues.

Had primed the clutch slave, but couldn't get a  pedal, can't find eezy bleed, off to Halfords for another.

'Caps fit most cylinders'. Not Saab 9-3 they don't! Almost but with 10lbs pressure it blows the cap and fluid every where.

Try again with 5lb. Pedal. but very little.

Pump pedal like mad. (some say don't do this) ....half a pedal.

Leave it for a while.

Continued elsewhere, try grin thread.

[Bren]

Woke up this morning with the worst headache I have ever experienced - neck aching as well. Went back to sleep and started sweating - clothes were stuck to me. Unsurprisingly I have just done a positive lateral flow. A PCR now awaits tomorrow.

[Dyslexic Viking]

The figures for the number of new cars sold in Norway last year have now been published. And last year there was a record sale of new cars and almost all are electric, so with the average age of cars being about 11 years in Norway, most if not all petrol stations are probably gone within 10-15 years if this continues.

 

[kirton]

It must be me getting old and a semi techno cripple but doing Mrs K's tax self assessment (SA) has driven me towards gnashing teeth and tearing hair out this afternoon.  (domestic abuse by both of us on the other was avoided by a hair's breadth)

I spent a long time trying to verify her identity;  2 required;

Northern Ireland driving licence  -that's a NO , what's so special about NI?

Phone contract - hers renewed this July -

When did you get a credit card -over 6 years ago

Current passport - hooray - YES

What was last years tax due?  found the SA return but no trace of what was due.  Searched high and low for HMRC hard copy, searched bank statements;  domestic tension brewing up

looks like we scored only one out of 5

Look at contact HMRC online- can do but contact  contains warning  - don't ask us to help verify your identity, not much* help there

Then found you can get identity GOV accepted verification by the Post Office or a firm, I chose the PO, went  round in circles entering  full name and dob at least three times on different pages, but got there, with a direct link to Self Assessment - a WINNER!  Grumpyness much reduced.  Also got to copy of last year's tax statement - they owed Mrs K £25, so no wonder we went around the circle of what did they dun her for.

SA form is pretty straightforward (I think they shouldn't quibble too much) nice to skip past the optional declarations that would provide details

Then I get to the SUBMIT; sign off in blood that it's all true, press submit  - system now says you've changed it so Fuck OFF;  time for hair tearing;  I give up after some go back, repeat, fail again ,again ; exit and get taken straight to the PO site (WTF!).  Oh well, sign in so I can log out I thinks;  straight back to SA SUBMIT, press SUBMIT - only bloody works

Having got that off my chest I feel a lot better; Mrs K hates me a bit less for putting her through the annual trauma again, time for beer.

and a belated  Happy New Year to shiters

 

 

[Wack]

You really can't believe people can be so stupid 

Rings 999 , asks for Snowdon mountain rescue  then asks them what the weather will be like up there tomorrow 

[Bren]

I have the full set of symptoms - even my teeth feel like they will fall out. I shouldn't moan really - dodged something for two years that has killed thousands. And a lack of eating means that my spare tyre is becoming a spacesaver.

[carburettor]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

You really can't believe people can be so stupid 

Rings 999 , asks for Snowdon mountain rescue  then asks them what the weather will be like up there tomorrow 

 

That is *amazing* he should get a £250 fine, fucking spastic!

[Bren]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

You really can't believe people can be so stupid 

Rings 999 , asks for Snowdon mountain rescue  then asks them what the weather will be like up there tomorrow 

 

I can. While there is little punishment expect things to get worse.

Why are so many of the population utter crap?

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

I have the full set of symptoms - even my teeth feel like they will fall out. I shouldn't moan really - dodged something for two years that has killed thousands. And a lack of eating means that my spare tyre is becoming a spacesaver.

Sorry to hear that you've got the Rona. If it's any consolation, being jabbed turns this from being life-threatening to "just" severely uncomfortable. 

All the usual NHS throwaway lines apply: fluids, rest, paracetamol etc. Seem to remember having some bloody weird dreams when I had it. 

Get well soon

[Stanky]

My 2 penneth. The caller is clearly a cretin, but is probably  safe and dry at home making the call.

This gives the mountain rescue people the opportunity to tell him that the weather will be 500mph winds, horizontal snow drifting to 40 feet and temperature with wind-chill of minus 70c.

This will keep the cretin at home, because he is clearly the type who will go and climb mountains in shorts and t-shirt with no compass, map, flask, food or fucking clue, then get stuck, necessitating a rescue.

At least this way, everyone stays at home where it's relatively safe.

Also, tiktok is 100% cunts. I have never seen or heard anything of merit on there. @Wack, seriously, for the sake of your sanity just fuck it off. It's just full of the sort of people who, 20 years ago, would be shouting at pigeons in the town centre. Just don't give them the oxygen of publicity.

[Agila]

"Wow, I can't believe we've just landed a plane".

You haven't muppet, that was the pilots.

EE advert. It's crap and annoys me every time it comes on.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The figures for the number of new cars sold in Norway last year have now been published. And last year there was a record sale of new cars and almost all are electric, so with the average age of cars being about 11 years in Norway, most if not all petrol stations are probably gone within 10-15 years if this continues.

 

Was in Bergen 2 years ago, never saw so many Teslas around. Most of the rest seemed to be Nissan Leafs (Leaves?)

Ironic that oil money will pay for them to go totally EV.

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Was in Bergen 2 years ago, never saw so many Teslas around. Most of the rest seemed to be Nissan Leafs (Leaves?)

Ironic that oil money will pay for them to go totally EV.

There are all kinds of electric cars here now, many from China as well. And it's ironic is typical of us selling oil while pretending to save the world.

This is one of the latest electric cars from China Hongqi e-hs9 for what is better for the environment than a 2.7 tonne SUV that is probably built with coal power and is dead after 10 years.

[155V6]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

I have the full set of symptoms - even my teeth feel like they will fall out. I shouldn't moan really - dodged something for two years that has killed thousands. And a lack of eating means that my spare tyre is becoming a spacesaver.

Sorry you're suffering so much.I tested positive last Thursday,but apart from a sore throat & occasional headache,I haven't felt too bad.

[Wack]

1 hour ago, Stanky said:

 

Also, tiktok is 100% cunts. I have never seen or heard anything of merit on there. @Wack, seriously, for the sake of your sanity just fuck it off. It's just full of the sort of people who, 20 years ago, would be shouting at pigeons in the town centre. Just don't give them the oxygen of publicity.

I agree there are many attention seekers on there , I do like the easy dismissal aspect of it,if it's shite it's 2 seconds and gone,  though I preferred it when it was one minute videos 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Desperately want to get my Golf cleaned as the lack of a working rear wiper and current weather conditions mean it's absolutely filthy.  Can't get enough of a break between rain to do it so went looking for a car wash yesterday.  The only local one that doesn't involve driving through central Canterbury is currently being overhauled (to accept card payments at the wash rather than in the shop - long overdue) and I don't want to encourage people trafficking, so refuse to use any of the hand car washes around.

It's a minor grump I grant you but it's fucking annoying.  Is it me or have most automatic car washes just disappeared?

[High Jetter]

I could lend you a sponge.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

53 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I could lend you a sponge.

I hate washing cars.  Absolutely detest it.  And we haven't had a day without rain for what feels like six weeks now...

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

 And we haven't had a day without rain for what feels like six weeks now...

Isn't it clean yet? 

[twosmoke300]

Best  time to wash a car is in the rain