The grumpy thread

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I see what you mean, but you can't get much shiter than it being held in place with cable ties and insulated from water by 2 layers of parcel tape.

[Pete-M]

I see what you mean, but you can't get much shiter than it being held in place with cable ties and insulated from water by 2 layers of parcel tape.

 

Parcel tape? Shiters use sellotape.

[Minimad5]

Not so much of a grump, but i know tomorrow that thy lady is going to kill me.

She has nick-named the Peugeot "Donkey" .... and i've failed to tell her that - come tomorrow we'll no longer have "him/her" . . . .

[Pete-M]

Not so much of a grump, but i know tomorrow that thy lady is going to kill me.

She has nick-named the Peugeot "Donkey" .... and i've failed to tell her that - come tomorrow we'll no longer have "him/her" . . . .

 

You've sold the 309? I do hope you've got something better to replace it. ??

[Minimad5]

Not so much of a grump, but i know tomorrow that thy lady is going to kill me.

She has nick-named the Peugeot "Donkey" .... and i've failed to tell her that - come tomorrow we'll no longer have "him/her" . . . .

 

You've sold the 309? I do hope you've got something better to replace it. ??

 

I wouldn't say better nor would i say worse (As the 309 has never let me down, even before i did the valve stem oil seals when it smoked like a B*tch)

All i know is that it won't be as fun ..... but all will become clear

[Cavcraft]

Citroen Picasso 1.6SX?

[Lankytim]

Just SORN'd the Volvo I bought for spares recently online,

 

Declare SORN

 

Gap in licensingThere has been a gap in the licensing of the vehicle.

 

Previous Tax Disc or SORN declaration expired on: 01 03 2009

 

It is an offence to be the registered keeper of a vehicle that is unlicensed and does not have SORN declared. You can declare SORN from today's date, however, please note the above offence still applies. DVLA's Continuous Registration Enforcement Centre may be in contact with the registered keeper regarding this gap in licensing.

 

Does that mean that the previous owner is going to get dry bummed for fines, or me? Its on disabled tax BTW.

[Pete-M]

Just SORN'd the Volvo I bought for spares recently online,

 

Declare SORN

 

Gap in licensingThere has been a gap in the licensing of the vehicle.

 

Previous Tax Disc or SORN declaration expired on: 01 03 2009

 

It is an offence to be the registered keeper of a vehicle that is unlicensed and does not have SORN declared. You can declare SORN from today's date, however, please note the above offence still applies. DVLA's Continuous Registration Enforcement Centre may be in contact with the registered keeper regarding this gap in licensing.

 

Does that mean that the previous owner is going to get dry bummed for fines, or me? Its on disabled tax BTW.

 

Is it in your name? You can only be bummed from when you acquired it. Although you're meant to tell them even when it's nigh-on impossible to if you follow their system. Sending letters and stuff. Bollocks.

[autofive]

i tried to sorn the granada when the v5 came back in my name, couldnt do it online, the system wouldnt let me, as its been off the road longer than the sorn system has been in place

[Lankytim]

Its in my name now, I bought it a few weeks ago but only got the V5 through recently. The PO owned it for about 10 years or so.

[Minimad5]

i tried to sorn the granada when the v5 came back in my name, couldnt do it online, the system wouldnt let me, as its been off the road longer than the sorn system has been in place

 

I've had the same problem with the Rebel, even sent loads of SORN forms off to DVLA.

Not even a single letter back from them

[The Moog]

Been ill for the last 3 weeks.

 

During that time have had a stupid runny nose, achey type flu but not enough to kill me / take time off. I work as a lecturer and asked my class today how many were ill. Out of a group of 16, 11 were ill. No wonder I keep getting stuff.

 

Have had to my injections for Cambodia at the weekend and I am sure that has made things worse...

[autofive]

i was having a lie-in this morning....until a hammering on the door at 7:50am - bloody postie with a 50 metre roll of bubblewrap i bought yesterday

[eddyramrod]

Just to pay the bills... I'm running this ad at the moment, the latest in a series, on an expats forum called CyprusLiving. This is a revised version, before this revision I also sold a four-drawer freezer and some patio furniture. There's going to be more and more stuff as time goes on...

 

CL ad reads:

 

My fleet of cars:

1972 Ford Granada, was 11,000 euros NOW ONLY 9,750 EUROS

1987 Bertone X1/9 was 2,750 euros NOW ONLY 2,500 EUROS

2002 Vauxhall Brava was 3,750 euros NOW ONLY 3,600 EUROS

Further details of all these can be found in my previous ad here.

Also: a whole new hobby for you! Restoration project: 1966 Austin A40 Countryman, stripped for restoration, many new or reconditioned parts (none fitted). Cash offers invited.

 

Also, some furniture:

1999 DFS sofas in Willow (pale green) leather: 3 seater, 2 seater and pouffe. Was 300 euros the set. NOW ONLY 250 EUROS

Fold-out bed/settees, three of; 25/50/100 euros.

Otto fridge-freezer, new here 2009, was 150 euros. SOLD

Patio tables, one folding/one fixed, 10 euros each.

Inflatable swimming pool, 15 ft diameter, with cover, groundcloth, filter pump, stepladder and inflator, all new here 2009, was 90 euros. NOW ONLY 75 EUROS

Diplomat dishwasher, can be seen in action, was 75 euros. SOLD

Swing seat, new 2009, 50 euros.

Dining table and 6 chairs, metal/wood, was 75 euros. NOW ONLY 65 EUROS

 

Xbox games, for original Xbox (not 360), 10 euros each. Please ask for titles.

 

All prices ovno; please call 99009826. Items located in Mesogi, just off Polis Road.

 

Quite enough to make one "Grumpy" I think. I bought the freezer (used) in march because we were moving to this house, which is bigger than the one we had, and I thought the extra freezer space would be handy. I was right. But, we need the cash, things have to go. Yes, even my restoration project. There's someone for everything if you can wait long enough. Question is, can I?

[M'coli]

i was having a lie-in this morning....until a hammering on the door at 7:50am - bloody postie with a 50 metre roll of bubblewrap i bought yesterday

I hope it wasn't damaged!

[Lord Sterling]

So, St fucking Modwen are knocking down the old flight shed at Longbridge, today I tried to blag a couple of signs before they knock the whole thing down but despite me asking about I cant find the bloody site manager despite some of the crew asking on my behalf. Also, whilst waiting parking the car up I managed to get a large screw pierced in my tyre.

 

I booked a test drive at MG in Longbridge in the new MG Magnette, they took my details promised me a test drive the next weekend and I've still hear nothing, 3 weeks later......

 

Eddy - It would be great if you could bring your Ford Granda complete with number-plate back here to blighty. With that plate you would look proper old money/eccentric

 

Incidently 'GF8' in the UK is apparently currently mounted up on a 1998 Mercedes Sprinter 310 LWB

[Lankytim]

Worth asking the guys to see if they will save anything tasty for you. A crate of beer or similar can instantly transform you into their best friend.

[eddyramrod]

Your Lordship: yes, I could bring it back, but I don't want to for a number of reasons. 1: it has the ridiculous DIY gearbox, which has no place in a luxury car. I thought I'd be able to live with it, but it just annoys me more and more. 2: it has significant history over here, where it's been from new (although only verbal so far, I haven't been able to get any confirmation). It really needs to be in a museum and owned by a Greek Cypriot. 3: Swansea would have kittens about the number plate. Yes it would look terrific, but I would eventually have to re-register and get something with rather more letters and numbers, ending in K. 4: I need to sell it to raise the money to come back!

[Lankytim]

To be fair, If I was a MK1 Granada i'd prefer to live in sunny Cyprus over the rainy U.K anyday.

[eddyramrod]

So would I, and I'm not a Granada! It has been here from new, so I don't think it's fair to subject it to UK winters after all this time. There are better, and better-spec, Granadas in Blighty if I really wanted to scratch that itch again. AFAIK there's a total of ONE other Granada still running over here, and that's a Mk2 and isn't as good in any way, except for having the proper gearbox. It'll be this one...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Random question: do you know if the Mk3 Granada was sold in Cyprus? If yes, was it offered as Granada or as Scorpio?

[maxpower]

finished work at 10pm last night been unable to get a wink of sleep .... it's now 5.49am and i am back in work at 8.00 this morning until 6pm.... fuckstix

 

 

***** update ****** called in a sicky

[Guest]

I promise I won't make this a habit. But, but, but......

 

You rely on other people, they let you down. I don't have to but I wanted to do a wee intro for a piece of coursework. My mixer decided to blow its arse out of one channel last week. Then my cans went. Lovely. Facilities would have lent me a field mixer, but I could tell they weren't keen on it.

 

Them: 'Well, you need to be specially trained on one of these.'

Me: 'I used to run a 48 track DC2000 with flying faders mate, a four track with some rotary knobs ain't gonna phase me (LOL at production in joke).'

Them: 'Well, you still need to be specially trained.'

 

Anyway, I find an alternative - an ex colleague who'd bought a mixer off me years ago still has it and will sell it me back. I can collect it off him first thing this morning. Decide to forego a lie in and have yet another early start, like I've had every day for the past three weeks, all week. Get in the car and yet another balls-up occurs: 'Oh yeah, sorry mate, I forgot to bring the mixer in, you can get it off me Monday'. Nice one. So if I want to record my intro and outro I have to do it on the day of hand in. Lovely.

 

Cans are away being repaired and won't come back until after Christmas. Was very tempting to nick a pair from a teaching room and slip them back in on Monday, but there's cameras everywhere and knowing me I'd get caught by jungle OUTTASPACE cleaner man as I headed for the exit (tip, he plays some bare ragga through the PA after 10PM when he thinks everyone's gone).

 

So, one unscheduled 100 mph run to the Trafford Centre later and I now have a pair of surprisingly good Sennheiser cans I'm definitely keeping around, even when my Grados come back.

 

Next up we have work. Work are being pricks because they 'don't know' if I can have next Thursday off. You've had 10 days notice you feckless shitbags, can't you sort SOMETHING out in that time ? No, I don't want to swap with someone. I want the goddamn time off as a holiday. I'm too busy to swap shifts.

 

Tell you what. If I can't have Thursday off after giving you 10 days notice, you can keep your job. I'll find something else in the month we have off. Loan will see me in January. I'm probably going to take my laptop to work and mix my work there on my lunch hour.

 

Failing that I might just go in for two hours, feign illness and come home. Is £400 a month really worth this much hassle? I don't like them and they don't like me.

 

Tomorrow is the last chance my group gets to sort the filming out for a practical project. Our camera man is a complete tit who 'doesn't like' communicating, ignores the countless emails, texts, facebook messages and answer phone messages we leave him, and is so lackadaisical I've had to book the camera out because he 'can't get' to Media City.

 

This means I had to make a special trip before work to get the damn thing, and I'll have to take it back, specially. Funny, he seems to be able to email \ text \ facebook \ phone his bird constantly, and yet whenever we need him to do something he pleads poverty and claims he never has any credit. Our Cypriot director is hopeless and her paper edit is horrible. I'm going to have some hilarious fun editing this fucker down, I tell you. If anyone wants to come to Media City between 17-23 December, be my guest.

 

Oh, my days.

[andrew e]

Stop whinging Wat. Yeah your life is shite we get it! When you jack your job in send them Luxo's number to silence him too.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

That would be real punishment!

[Cavcraft]

EBay/Paypal are wankers.

[morris_ital_lover]

EBay/Paypal are wankers.

 

Amen to that.

[TimothyClaypole]

Will be paying them a nice Christmas bonus this week, £241.46

 

Where's the "bummed" smiley?

[cort16]

I didn't survice hurricanebawbag unscathed as I first thought. I went out to the Alfa this morning and

 

this

tiles by cort16, on Flickr

 

broke it's fall on this

bump by cort16, on Flickr

 

Pit of a pisser really as although there's a couple of different colours of silver there weren't any dents.

I've decide to sell it now as I bought it as I always fancied a super lusso 166 and now fancy something like an 850T5 estate for high speed dump hauling.

[Guest]

Stop whinging Wat. Yeah your life is shite we get it! When you jack your job in send them Luxo's number to silence him too.

 

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to vent now and again. Yeah, 'now and again'. Check back - when was the last time I posted anything about Uni in GOM?

 

Actually, you're right - I've got plenty good going on at the moment. The next time something pisses me off I'll forego the words on a screen and go straight to kicking someone's head in. It's so simple!