The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

I think the Merc is more likely a 300SE from about 1967...

[barrett]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. Is it a US-Spec Merc W123 and a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow she's in the way of?

 

Yes, well I'm slightly uncertain about the model of RR (I reckon it might be pre-Shadow) which is why I'd like to see a larger (extremely high quality, 1080p full HD widescreen massive) version, just to make sure. Obviously.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, I reckon you're right Eddy - though you may be cheating and have actually watched the programme the shot is taken from!

[eddyramrod]

I didn't realise it was a screen grab, what's the programme?

[retrogeezer]

Not a problem for me, I get 50% off at the local battery specialist

 

 

I shall make a note of that Pete...

[Guest]

Used my new OMG CARBURETTOR SKILLZ to get the Amazon going again.

 

However.........

 

The temperature gauge climbed, I shat it, turned the engine off and watched the bottom corner of the rad and the bottom hose do a great big steaming wee on the garage floor. And the only place that sells uprated rads (in preparation for the B20 overbore thing) did me out of a front crank oil seal. The same company whom I might have told in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.

 

POO NOISE.

[Pete-M]

Used my new OMG CARBURETTOR SKILLZ to get the Amazon going again.

 

However.........

 

The temperature gauge climbed, I shat it, turned the engine off and watched the bottom corner of the rad and the bottom hose do a great big steaming wee on the garage floor. And the only place that sells uprated rads (in preparation for the B20 overbore thing) did me out of a front crank oil seal. The same company whom I might have told in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.

 

POO NOISE.

 

Get the rad out, bring it to me and I'll get it sorted. Uprated shouldn't be a problem either. Cost? Not sure, but depends what you want.

[RoadworkUK]

Bah.

 

My trusty Sony WM FX551 Walkman;

 

 

AKA the best sounding Walkman I ever owned, £109 from Dixons in the '90s, my reference unit for cassette playback and a damn good radio to boot;

 

Is borked. Total logic failure.

 

Still won't throw it away, though. Can't.

[Pete-M]

I've got one similar to this.

 

 

Thought I was the only fan of old Sony Walkmenâ„¢ about. The radio on it is ace. Sometimes.

[RoadworkUK]

 

Thought I was the only fan of old Sony Walkmenâ„¢ about. The radio on it is ace.

 

True story:- I had an iPod, the battery stopped taking a charge. I binned it, went back to the Walkman, started making mixtapes again. Love them. A C90 is still a compact enough little capsule, just enough to fit Dark Side Of The Moon and most of Wish You Were Here on.

[Station]

I prefer tapes over any other 'medium'. It's more difficult to skip tracks unlike an Ipod/CD/record, so you tend to listen to the whole thing.

 

Has this country always been this cold? I can't adjust to it, it's freezing outside.

[pompei]

Tapes are for WINNARS.

 

I've just reunited myself with two carrier bags and am happily going through a load of old stuff including DIY bootlegs - cassette recorder smuggled into gigs under my old massive coat

 

This should have been in the grin thread but who cares?

[Lord Sterling]

Something while you wait:

 

 

 

YUM!!

 

You lucky f.... Most of the girls here in Belgium look quite like that, great bodies, not too much make up, damn, its making going out/driving/walking about difficult for me.

 

I dont know why I'm noticing them now, I used to live here as a rampart teen didnt really notice that much then

 

I was passin through Czechoslovakia some years back and almost every female I saw were pretty incredible looking

[Station]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

 

[RedSparrow]

Incidentally my new Czech girlfriend is coming tomorrow to visit for a few days.

I am kind of sick of British girls and they seem sick of me so WATEVAR.

[barrett]

Is that 'Joanna Lovely'* ?

 

 

*My mate's dad has always called Joanna Lumley this, because he's a dirty old man

[Guest]

The unit.

 

I'm sick of the constant shitty squabbles and lack of space. I want to know, right now, why biscuit flid and others are allowed cars bursting out of the seams, and yet the complaints stack up if I dare to park one of mine outside.

 

I'm sick of hearing everything second hand from spineless little turds who delight in stirring shit, and never own up to anything when confronted. Who has actually complained about my cars being outside? Sugar twat says he hasn't, the guys at the Beetle place denied it outright when I asked, so it's very difficult to tell who has the problem, real or imagined, written or implied.

 

I'm sick of having to take five steps to everyone else's one (in baby bootees). I'm sick of being told to 'make an effort' with the landlord and talk to him, and because he's never there when I am, I'm expected to go out of my way and wait until he turns up. The shit stirrers who get all priapic in relaying messages back to me: 'Tom's not happy with you, Tom's looking for you, Tom says you're taking the piss' won't reciprocate and tell the landlord what I'm doing, and I'm still thought of badly even though I've taken steps and sold \ moved stuff, whilst everyone else with the lion's share of space outside refuse to break up or sell their cars because they 'won't get good money for them'. Cheers - where's a third of your rent coming from again? Also, why do I have to be civil to filler and sugar flid again? He spoke to me like a piece of shit over something I didn't even do (and was minor in extremis even if I had). Everyone else would knocked him out cold, but I'm not allowed to get angry because that's 'counter productive'.

 

In short, things have to change, because I am not happy. My other square project is going in a friend's garage in Sale, because I cannot be bothered with the moaning and arse ache that will come with leaving it at the unit. I would stick the 305 in the unit (y'know, my space that I pay for with my money) but it's full of everyone else's crap and I'd have to shunt other cars out of the way if I had the audacity to want to take it out. That's if the bodge artist next door leaves me enough room to do that. Which he won't, because he's a selfish bastard. It must be great spending your days being an aggressive little wanker to others over the slightest imagined infraction and trowelling 928s full of wob, I must try it.

 

Yes, very fair. The place I go to get away from constant mithering and sniping has become the very opposite of everything I intended it to be. A shame. With a few concessions things could be rosy, but because I'm not one of the untouchables fuck all will change, I bet you.

 

I'm spending my weekends on the Amazon instead. It can go straight to Dave and Gray's to get the new floors and chassis leg welded in. I'll do the rest in Conwy.

 

Rant off.

[ashmicro]

Get an SA80 A2 (L85 A2). Shouldn't be hard to find, as the Stabs and RAF Regiment keep leaving them lying around.

[Guest]

Actually, those are great suggestions, but my jack handle will suffice.

[Rocket88]

I don't know if I'd be polishing my "jack handle" on the porch, son.

 

You can end up on a register for that........................seriously though, can you contact your landlord by phone and have a word with him?

[Guest]

can you contact your landlord by phone and have a word with him?

 

Tried that. He never answers. Short of sticking a letter through the box of his static caravan thing with my number on it, I don't know what to do.

 

It doesn't matter anyway, because certain people are ALWAYS right.

[Station]

I'd just move out and make do with a £6 per week lockup until a better one comes up. It seems as though you are getting shafted on all sides.

[RoadworkUK]

Mobile phone companies. Again. Vodafone this time.

 

My contract expired a few months ago, but I'd not got around to sorting it out. Stupid, I know. Anyway, currently paying £35 a month (plus £10 insurance...) and not using anywhere near my included minutes, texts, data etc. All I wanted to do was change the contract to a nice, cheap sim-only contract and kill the insurance. Their website showed a 30 day rolling contract with 100 minutes, 500 texts, 100mb data. Basic. £13. Just what I wanted.

 

Phoned 'em up at work. Opted for the number for "If you're thinking of leaving us". Got through to an Irish chap called Dominic. He asked if I was looking to upgrade my phone. I said no, quite the opposite in fact. I wanted to keep my exsisting phone on a nice, cheap rolling contract so I wouldn't get tied town and could upgrade when I want.

 

Was the fucker having any of that? "What sort of phone are you waiting for?" "No point in going for a 30 day contract, much better to go for a 12 month and pay the difference if you decide to upgrade later" "Etc."

 

I protested.

 

He then told me I could only get the 30 or 90 day contract if I did it online. See you later, I said, ending the 10 minute phone call.

 

Went online, found the £13 contract I had seen. Then I logged in to my account to try and change from my contract to the £13 one. It had gone. The cheapest was £20, with fuckloads of data, minutes etc. No option to slim it all down, very much "YOU NEED ALL THIS SHIT". I don't. My phone is so shit online I don't bother.

 

Phoned them up again on the "So you're thinking of leaving us" hotline. Got through to a man who had no name. Explained the situation, but a few minutes later he said that he only dealt with upgrades and new contracts, I needed to spek to customer service. Eh?

 

Put me through, a very quiet voice at the other end spoke with a pronounced indian accent. I explained my dilemma, he again tried to reason with me that I really ought to, in fact, upgrade my phone and that he would put me through to another department.

 

"No!" I protested. "How hard can it be? I want to change my contract, which has expired, to a cheaper one that you have on the internet. Either that or you can just cancel it and I'll start again somewhere else. Probably a brightly coloured, futuristic network".

 

He then spoke to me in Urdu about th myriad different sim-only deals they had, none of which seemed to be the one I'd seen on the internet. It didn't seem to exsist. He could, though, give me a gigabyte of data for £20. THIS WASN'T WHAT I WANTED.

 

It had now been half an hour. I mentioned getting a PAC code. Suddenly, "Oh, sir, I have found a £13 per month, rolling, 30 day contract with 100 minutes and 500 texts".

 

Four fox ache.

[Timewaster]

can you contact your landlord by phone and have a word with him?

Tried that. He never answers.

 

Stop paying him. He'll get in contact with you then!!

[TimothyClaypole]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250877847552

 

Apparently this was on charge and mysteriously burnt out.

 

I've said I still want it even if it's a lump of molten plastic (I wanted the other bits for my "Retro" JVC GR-DV1 so that the camera wasn't working didn't bother me).

 

If not then this Ebay newbie will be getting a slap for not manning up and realising that starting at 99p is a gamble you don't always win.

[Alexg]

^ Why was he charging a faulty camcorder he was about to post?

[ashmicro]

I wouldn't bother with a mobile contract, PAYG for me. For a £15 quid top up a month I get 500 texts, 500 MB of Internet, and unlimited calls (within reason) to anyone else on o2, and you still get £15 of credit should you not top up in time. As soon as you do top up, it's all back on again, texts, internet etc. I just bought the phone myself, suggested by Trigger's sister, and job jobbed.

[Rover414]

I feel your pain about Vodafone, they're annoying as hell. I'm on PAYG and I noticed recently they have put texts up from 10p to 12p, doesn't sound like a lot but it adds up over the course of a £5 topup. However I have noticed their text packs still contain 70 texts for a fiver (even at the previous 10p it was 50 per top up). There is no point in me topping up with anything besides a text pack now, I still get my 50p per top up to bonus bank and I still get free weekend texts and calls as per a normal top up, so they've made little more on me. Well done Vodafone

[eddyramrod]

Ahhhh, Joanna Lumley, pre-Purdey I do believe. Well found.

 

Lord Sterling, you want to see the local talent where I am! As if driving in Cyprus isn't dangerous enough anyway, then they add in the girls. Holy shit. Even my landlady is X-rated! (And no, I am NOT posting a pic of her, you'll just have to imagine... you pervy bunch! )

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

12p per text is mental. I can send them online for about 3p (3 eurocents + German VAT which I think is 19%) apiece on Voipbuster, and my fifteen quid sim-only contract (suicide telecom) includes 100 of them on top of the minutes and unlimited landline calls.